/usr/src/redhat missing

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri May 27 12:14:04 UTC 2005


On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:37:26PM +0800, Serge de Souza wrote:
> >there.I created redhat directory under /usr/src .Under redhat
> >directory I created RPMS,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS subdirectories and
> >under RPMS subdirectory I created athlon,i386,i486,i586,i686 and
> >noarch directories.
[...]
> You need to install the rpm-build rpm

But beyond that, you should create a per-user RPM build area in your own
home directory and build RPMs as a normal user, not as root. See:
<http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/buildtree/>

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