On Monday 17 May 2010 04:12:30 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>> On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, reg@xxxxxxx wrote: > >>>> I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. > >>>> How do I 'rip it apart' ?? > >>> > >>> rpm -qpl src.rpm > >>> > >>> should show you a list of the files in the RPM. When you "install" it, > >>> they get installed in your rpmbuild sandbox under: SPECS and SOURCES > >>> subdirectories. > >>> > >>>> Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but > >>>> I have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. > >>>> They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in /root/rpmbuild. > >>> > >>> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root. Look in your > >> > >>> user RPM sandbox: > >> Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible. I think its > >> asinine that I am prevented from building my kernels as a user, simply > >> because mkinird cannot be made to run if you are not root. > > > >You don't need mkinitrd to build a kernel, you need it to *install* a > > > > kernel, two different operations. After you do the make you can make > > modules_install and install with the -n option (if you wish) to inspect > > what they will do, or just "su -c "make modules_install modules" > > > >after the build is done. > > Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until > somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my > specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will > not run for anybody but root. mkinitrd is no longer in use in newer fedora's i think 12 and up. dracut replaced it. and you need to install rpms as root. this is where mkinitrd/dracut come in. all fedora rpms are built as a non root user > > >You didn't ask: I run my build in a script command, so I have the details > > > > of any error messages. > > So do I, rigged so any error stops it right there, rather than having the > error scroll off screen while I'm tending to an empty coffee cup.
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