16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
8:20 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leonard@den.ottolander.nl 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.
NO. Never do this.
Use a personal .rpmmacros file to reset your personal working directories, so you can compile locally.
%_topdir /home/username/rpm