On Tuesday, 03 July 2007, at 09:19:32 (-0400), Michael Dengler wrote: > + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/mezzanine-buildroot.15952/usr/bin > /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/tmp/mezzanine-buildroot.15952': > Permission denied > > ... > > when building as non-root. Any system on which non-root users cannot write to /var/tmp is inherently broken. File a bug against your sysadmin. :-) > I added a new %_tmppath and %_topdir that points to my home dir to > ~/.rpmmacros but alas...no joy. Try setting $MEZZANINE_TMPDIR. If that doesn't work, use this: perl -pi -e 's,/var/tmp,/tmp,g' mod/*.pm Then try again. Use something else instead of /tmp if you wish. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad." -- Christopher Case _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list