Re: [CentOS-devel] Re: Rebuild of coreutils failing

On 6/20/07, Philip R. Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov wrote:

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:46 -0400, Rob West wrote:

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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.

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On 6/20/07, Rob West robertfwest@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