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[Michael Stone]

> >> Since I don't have root, the last command failed to build an RPM (it
> >> wants to put it in /usr/share/redhat/RPMS) 

RPM is happy to build things in user-specified locations. You may be
particularly interested in the suite of rpmbuild path-setting options
including:

  --define "_topdir=/foo"
  --define "_srpmdir=/bar"
  --define "_rpmdir=/baz"
  --define "_builddir=/grr"
  --define "_sourcedir=/mrg"

Michael