On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > Hello Keith, > > (Oops, send out the previous mail before it was finished.) OK! > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote: >> [rpmbuilder at 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. Right. I did su to root, and it work OK. But will chown those if I decide to use that branch of dirs. >> Is there a package I need to install and run to set >> things up corectly? > > redhat-rpm-config sets certain build macros. Although not strictly > required you should probably always install this packages. One thing I > stumbled on is that a new type of check summing is used nowadays for the > content of the rpms. If the correct macro isn't set you might run into > installation conflicts, f.e. for multilib doc files. That's installed OK. Installed Packages Name : redhat-rpm-config Arch : noarch Version : 8.0.45 Release : 32.el5.centos Size : 128 k Repo : installed Summary : CentOS specific rpm configuration files. License : GPL Description: CentOS specific rpm configuration files. double-tabbing on rpm gives me: [root at karsites ~]# rpm rpm rpmdev-diff rpmdev-sha384 rpmlint rpm2cpio rpmdev-extract rpmdev-sha512 rpmls rpmargs rpmdev-md5 rpmdev-sum rpmpeek rpmbuild rpmdev-newspec rpmdev-vercmp rpmquery rpmbuild-md5 rpmdev-rmdevelrpms rpmdev-wipetree rpmsign rpmdb rpmdev-setuptree rpmdiff rpmsodiff rpmdev-bumpspec rpmdev-sha1 rpmelfsym rpmsoname rpmdev-checksig rpmdev-sha224 rpmfile rpmverify rpmdev-cksum rpmdev-sha256 rpminfo >> I have created a user called 'rpmbuilder' under my home dir, >> and created the rpmbuild dirs under that. > > If you make a different user to do builds you should rather give it its > own home dir. But you can just as well build using your default account. Sorry, I meant I have created a new user account under the /home/rpmbuilder directory. >> So what build dir shall I go for? > > Whatever you prefer. Just using /usr/src/redhat is probably the easiest. > If you want to use a different path scheme you can override the default > settings in ~/.rpmmacros to suit your needs. > > For example, I use > %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/%{name}-%{version} > %_specdir %{_sourcedir} > so the source files end up in their own directory and not all in the > same SOURCES dir. That's a handy tip to know! Thanks again. I'll see how things go now. Kind Regards, Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5