At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Hello Keith, > > 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. Even better would be to create the directories under your home dir and then include a line like: %_topdir /home/rpmbuilder/src in ~/.rpmmacros > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > 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. > %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/%{name}-%{version} > %_binary_filedigest_algorithm 8 > Regards, > Leonard. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments