On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Cristian Adam wrote: > > As I said, there was no apparent effect. No source files appeared in > > /usr/local/src or anywhere else. And certainly no compiling took place. > > I'm building a rpm right now (for SuSE 9.0), here is what you need to do: > > 1. rpm - i cvs-1.11.10-cvshome.org.1.src.rpm > 2. goto /usr/src/packages/SPECS > 3. rpmbuild -ba cvs-1.11.10.spec > 4.goto /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586 > 5. rpm -Uvh cvs-1.11.10-cvshome.org.1.i586.rpm > You have to build as root for this to work, and that is a very bad idea. (You could inadvertently render your system unusable, and some packages fail to build if you're root!) Use your %_topdir macro to allow yourself to build as a normal user, and only install the built product (step 5 there) as root.
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