Robert Moskowitz wrote: > thanks for replying. > > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I followed the setup instructions from >>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ >> >> ... the author is known to me ;) >> >>> 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' >> >> The end user account password is what sudo is looking for ... as >> noted, it seems you had not configured /etc/sudoers to include you. >> >>> So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am suppose to >>> do there. >> >> A sample entry which permits a single user machine to do root >> operations when needed, but to stay in its non-priv'd mode most of the >> time looks like something as simple as: >> >> [herrold at new ~]$ sudo grep herrold /etc/sudoers >> Password: [here, the end user 'herrold's password] >> herrold ALL=(ALL) ALL >> [herrold at new ~]$ >> >> ... We need root rights to read /etc/sudoers, or else it would have >> not been needed except for teaching reasons. >> >>> A bit of help would be greatly appreciated! >> >> Hope this helps .. I wonder a bit at your description of untarring, >> ./configure'ing, etc ... that is not part of rpm building from .spec >> or SRPM. > Here is what I was told to do: > > wget http://hipl.hiit.fi/hipl/hipl.tar.gz > > you can build on CentOS by executing: > > tar xvzf hipl.tar.gz > cd hipl--main--2.6 > ./autogen.sh > ./configure > make rpm > > ("make install" works too, but installs to /usr/local by default) > > Software requirements are listed here: > > http://infrahip.hiit.fi/hipl/manual/ch02.html OK ... after several changes to the spec file, I got this to build. The process was rather intense, so rather than trying to document it I will post a good SRPM after I verify that all the build requirements are there and it will also build the same in mock. So, in a couple minutes expect a link to download a GOOD SRPM for this package that builds on centos-5 i386 and x86_64 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080717/8c6c44b7/attachment-0005.sig>