On 12/16/2010 3:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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
Here are the steps I use:
mkdir $HOME/rpm mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros
You may also want an x86_64 directory depending on what you are building.