list of installed files during "make install"

[Michael Hirsch]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:25 PM, P Kapat <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> On Monday 06 October 2008 23:15:52 P Kapat wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>> > a simple use of checkinstall:
>>
>> I forgot to tell, use the .deb format if you do it on kubuntu,
>> you will surely find the process more straightforward.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, this whole process is for a RedHat machine (so .rpm).
> Secondly, as I mentioned in my earlier mails on this thread, I do not
> have root access on this machine. I agree, I need to be root to
> install a packages globally. BUT why do I need root access to build a
> .rpm from the source code???

Because rpm is a little broken.  Since you need to be root to install
rpms, the program seemed to assume that you were always root.  It
makes you be root to build rpms, by default.

Actually, it is possible to reconfigure your environment so that you
can build RPMs as a regular user.  I don't know all the exact recipe,
but I think you need to set an environment var to point to where your
RPMs should be built.  Or maybe that is in a config file somewhere.

The problem is that RPM thinks that /usr/src/RPM is a good place to do
builds.  That is so 1990s!  It really should be changed to
~/.rpmbuild/ or something like that.

Michael