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Yes, there are tools provided for contributors to supply rpm packages for platforms for which support

is provided in the spec file but for which the development team chooses not to release binary

packages, usually due to lack of interest or lack of an available platform. Please see

platforms/contrib/README in the source package.

I'm getting errors about not having permission when I try to build the packages. Do I need to be

root?

No, you do not need to be root and, in fact, it is better practice to build rpm packages as a non-root

user. Apcupsd's packages are designed to be built by a regular user but you must make a few

changes on your system to do this. If you are building on your own system then the simplest method

is to add write permissions for all to the build directory (/usr/src/redhat/). To accomplish this execute

one of the following commands as root depending on your distribution, RedHat, SuSE or Mandriva,

respectively:

chmod -R 777 /usr/src/redhat

chmod -R 777 /usr/src/packages

chmod -R 777 /usr/src/RPM

If you are working on a shared system where you can not use the method above then you need to

recreate the /usr/src/redhat (or other) directory tree with all of it's subdirectories inside your home

directory. Then create a file named

.rpmmacros

in your home directory (or edit the file if it already exists) and add the following line:

%_topdir /home/myuser/redhat

Credits

The success of apcupsd is due to the many people that helped in development, testing and in many other

ways.

Thank all the developers that worked hard to make APCUPSD one of the best piece of software for UPS

management.

Contributors

Current Code Maintainer and Project Manager

RPM Packager

D. Scott Barninger

CGI and HTML fixer

Former Project Manager

Project Starter and Former Code Maintainer

Former Code Maintainer and Project Manager

Riccardo Facchetti ([email protected])

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