[Yum-devel] yum-src people

Jeff Sheltren sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Mon Mar 14 14:39:23 UTC 2005


On 3/14/05 6:35 AM, "seth vidal" <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:

> 
>> A nodeps to allow just the single src.rpm to be installed
>> Maybe support --define topdir override to change the macro (or
>> alternately source a macrofiles).
> 
> so we want it to run as root?
> 
> -sv
> 
I'd prefer to run it as myself (not root).  Perhaps reading ~/.yum-src.rc
would be a way to check for a default install location?  Or just checking
for ~/.rpmmacros and look for a %topdir variable.

-Jeff





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