On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Building packages using RPMBUILD
>
> Hello Keith,
>
> (Oops, send out the previous mail before it was finished.)
OK!
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> [rpmbuilder@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm
>> error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>
> /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build
> as a normal user (and you should!) you should fix the ownership of those
> directories.
Right. I did su to root, and it work OK. But will chown
those if I decide to use that branch of dirs.
>> Is there a package I need to install and run to set
>> things up corectly?
>
> redhat-rpm-config sets certain build macros. Although not strictly
> required you should probably always install this packages. One thing I
> stumbled on is that a new type of check summing is used nowadays for the
> content of the rpms. If the correct macro isn't set you might run into
> installation conflicts, f.e. for multilib doc files.
That's installed OK.
Installed Packages
Name : redhat-rpm-config
Arch : noarch
Version : 8.0.45
Release : 32.el5.centos
Size : 128 k
Repo : installed
Summary : CentOS specific rpm configuration files.
License : GPL
Description: CentOS specific rpm configuration files.
double-tabbing on rpm gives me:
[root@karsites ~]# rpm
rpm rpmdev-diff rpmdev-sha384
rpmlint
rpm2cpio rpmdev-extract rpmdev-sha512
rpmls
rpmargs rpmdev-md5 rpmdev-sum
rpmpeek
rpmbuild rpmdev-newspec rpmdev-vercmp
rpmquery
rpmbuild-md5 rpmdev-rmdevelrpms rpmdev-wipetree
rpmsign
rpmdb rpmdev-setuptree rpmdiff
rpmsodiff
rpmdev-bumpspec rpmdev-sha1 rpmelfsym
rpmsoname
rpmdev-checksig rpmdev-sha224 rpmfile
rpmverify
rpmdev-cksum rpmdev-sha256 rpminfo
>> I have created a user called 'rpmbuilder' under my home dir,
>> and created the rpmbuild dirs under that.
>
> If you make a different user to do builds you should rather give it its
> own home dir. But you can just as well build using your default account.
Sorry, I meant I have created a new user account under the
/home/rpmbuilder directory.
>> So what build dir shall I go for?
>
> Whatever you prefer. Just using /usr/src/redhat is probably the easiest.
> If you want to use a different path scheme you can override the default
> settings in ~/.rpmmacros to suit your needs.
>
> For example, I use
> %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/%{name}-%{version}
> %_specdir %{_sourcedir}
> so the source files end up in their own directory and not all in the
> same SOURCES dir.
That's a handy tip to know!
Thanks again.
I'll see how things go now.
Kind Regards,
Keith
--
In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.
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