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
