On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Robert Heller wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Building packages using RPMBUILD
>
> At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Keith,
>>
>> 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.
>
> Even better would be to create the directories under your home dir and
> then include a line like:
>
> %_topdir /home/rpmbuilder/src
>
> in ~/.rpmmacros
OK.
Will try that as well.
Why is better to use a new user account under
/home/rpmbuilder
than the default that rpm installs source rpms to?
Keith
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