On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:05, Peter Watson wrote: > > With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my > first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using > checkinstall. > I get to the stage where checkinstall says "The package will be built > according to these values" and lists 10 values, I press enter to accept > them and then receive the following message "NOT-FOUND has no SOURCES > directory, Please write the path to the RPM source directory tree" I have > tried entering every path I can think of but I always get a repititioon of > the above message but with NOT-FOUND replaced by the path I have just > entered. > I end up having to Ctrl-C to get out of the loop. > Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, > can anyone help me please? > > TIA Pete > Ardnamurchan Scotland
So then I gather that you're intent on making RPM's - here's a quick link for you to check out - it's for RPM Wizard - and there's a download for Mandrake v9 http://rpmwiz.sourceforge.net/ Overall, I don't like to build RPM's - I prefer doing a TAR, then GZIP'ing the TARball, then using BZIP2 on that - makes for smaller archives and easier transport for those of us living on 56k...(grin) But, in the meantime, SOURCES would refer to the initial files that you're wanting to package up into an RPM - without the SOURCES, you're going to get an empty RPM, hence the error. Stephen -- Fri Nov 15 08:10:01 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. -- Burt Bacharach
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