Bryan White <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Don't do the rpmbuild as root. > I think I have it solved now. I am not to familiar with the process of > building from source RPMs. You said to not do it as root but that meant > I did not have write access to /usr/src/redhat. Well, nobody at Red Hat builds RPMs in /usr/src/redhat anymore ;-). The setup I use involves creating a directory ~/rpmwork, making these subdirectories in it: BUILD/ RPMS/ SOURCES/ SPECS/ SRPMS/ and making a file ~/.rpmmacros containing just %_topdir /home/tgl/rpmwork (adjust to suit where your work dir actually is of course). To build, copy the SRPM into the SRPMS subdirectory, cd there, and go rpmbuild --rebuild srpmfilename The only part you need root for is actually installing the built RPMs (which end up under the RPMS directory of course). regards, tom lane
