On 7/12/07, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote: > > Building as root is not sensible, as packages can 'leak' and > pollute the host environment -- see: > http://www.oldrpm.org/hintskinks/buildtree/ > for setting up a non-root building environment. > > We discuss it in a CentOS context here: > http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ > http://www.owlriver.com/tips/patching_srpms/ > > The Guru Labs tutorial material are linked, and a local copy > also maintained at: > http://www.oldrpm.org/howto/ > > which are also well thought of by me. > -- Russ Herrold It will be great if all of these are put together as a CentOS wiki article. [hint, hint] Akemi