[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

Thu Dec 16 16:05:20 UTC 2010
Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>

On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:08:12 am Keith Roberts wrote:
> Is there a package I need to install and run to set 
> things up corectly?
[snip]
> So what build dir shall I go for?

See the Fedora packaging guidelines, and install 'fedora-packager' from EPEL to get the tools that help you set up a normal user build environment.  This works quite well for the most part, and should work better in 6.