The problem is that unless you want to change the ownerships and/or permissions on the /usr/src/redhat directory, you need to have root privs to recompile .src.rpms, a process which places all of the necessary files under that subdirectory structure, which is owned by root.root. On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:54, Mike Burger wrote: > > As root, you would usually run "rpmbuild name-of.src.rpm" > > > > Alternatively, you could use "rpm -i name-of.src.rpm" to install the > > src.rpm, then go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and run "rpmbuild -ba > > package-name.spec". Either way, the resulting binary RPMs will be > > placed in the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory (could also be i686 > > or some such, but most likely in hte i386 subdirectory). > > Please note, building rpms as root is a big nono. > > Building RPM packages as a non-root user: > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/ > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
