You are correct, I should've said /root not /. The root cause was I was 
thinking root when I meant root, not the root. Guess I rooted it (in the 
Australian sense of the word).

On Jan 13, 2011, at 17:43, "Mark Post" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>> On 1/13/2011 at 05:31 PM, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> When I installed rpm-build I expected it to create the /usr/src/redhat/...
>> Directories and set rpmroot. However, this wasn*t the case (as it is for
>> centos4). If I manually create the /usr/src/redhat/ structure RPMROOT is
>> still set to / and any attempt to rpmbuild -bb fails. Is rpm-build the
>> correct package or is it in something else now?
> 
> If I'm remembering right, the last time I played with a brand new RPM, it 
> wanted to put everything under the home directory of the user doing the work.
> 
> 
> Mark Post
> 
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