[dev] Rebuilding SRPMS as non-root user and some other things...

[Chris Croome]

Hi

I'm installing OTRS on CentOS 4 (RHEL4) and there were a couple
things I noticed:

1. The Red Hat SRPMs won't rebuild using a non-root account.

2. The RPM I initially built depended on sendmail, but the server I
   want to run on is using postfix (the CentOS 4 postfix,
   system-switch-mail was used to change the MTA). I fixed this by
   removing sendmail from the spec file before rebuilding the SRPM.

3. Installing things like this in /opt isn't so common for Red Hat /
   Fedora based distributions...

4. The web based installer for MySQL won't work if SELinux is
   running (I realise the download page says that SELinux needs to be
   disabled). So I manually created the db and inserted
   otrs-schema.mysql.sql and then initial_insert.sql

Chris

PS The UK mirror site is very out of date, that latest version it
   has is otrs-1.3.2.

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