[CentOS] Problems with building an rpm

[Robert Moskowitz]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Well it was that make rpm command that finally failed.  And sudo was the
>> problem.  I got a message something like:
>>
>> Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers!!!!
>>
>> And then asked for a password.
>>
>> Which password?  My userid or root's?  I tried both and after 3 tries got:
>>
>> me is not in sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
>> removing '/home/me/rpmbuild/BUILD/hipl--main--2.6/hipl-1.0.4'
>>
>> So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am suppose to do
>> there.
>>
>> A bit of help would be greatly appreciated!
>>     
>
> Here:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot#head-5a98c43bd135904d720095ff461d52aa7b5
Thanks.

That got me a little further. Error I am getting now, is most likely 
something within the build and I have to get with my colleague. Needing 
a directory under /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11531

sigh. This is NOT easy.