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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
