new user, and some questions/comments

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:50:02PM +0200, Artur Frysiak mentioned:
> >  This is wonderful. It took me a while to work out that I should have all
> > my SPEC files in /root/rpm/SPECS instead of /tmp/SPECS (which is where I
> > used CVS to check them out).
> Small hint: Don't use root acount to build rpms.

 Seems like a few people here have been bitten by things like doing;

rm -rf $RPMBUILD_ROOT/

 instead of

rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/

 Yes ? I will setup my account to build RPMs somewhere nicely, thanks!

John
 
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