On Saturday 23 February 2002 12:51 am, you wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > [root@localhost SRPMS]# rpm -i gaim-0.51-1mdk.src.rpm
> > > error: cannot create %sourcedir /root/RPM/SOURCES
> > >
> > > Any ideas what's wrong?
> >
> > Is not the dir /RPM/SOURCES already in /usr/src?
>
> my thought was that the macro did not use:
>
>    mkdir -p /root/RPM/SOURCES
>
> -- and directory:  /root/RPM   was missing.
>
> -- Russ Herrold

RPM is not supposed to use /root/RPM, but /usr/RPM
and it's nos specific to the gaim package, but happens with every other 
source package I try to install or rebuild.

Rgds,
Rainer

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