[CentOS-devel] Re: Rebuild of coreutils failing

[James Olin Oden]

On 6/20/07, Philip R. Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:46 -0400, Rob West wrote:
> > Jeff Johnson kindly answered my question off-line. It seems that I
> > needed to install the redhat-rpm-config RPM, which overrides
> > find-lang.sh.
> ...
> > On 6/20/07, Rob West <robertfwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         I am trying to build the coreutils binary RPM from the CentOS
> >         5.0 source RPM using:
> >
> >         sudo rpmbuild --rebuild coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5.src.rpm
>
> You should consider building RPMs as a normal user.  Building as root is dangerous.  See:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM "Get set up for
> rebuilding packages while not being root"
>
He knows this....james