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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Angus Auld
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:07 AM
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Subject: [newbie] "rpm --rebuild" question
Greetings, I would like to know if there is a command for rpm that will allow me to rebuild from a source rpm, but not have the resulting rpm package install. That is, when I am rebuilding as su. I have read, somewhere, that one should never rebuild from source as root, because if errors occur you can end up with a partial install of the binary. Anyone have any thoughts on this.
I have mosly done all of my rebuilding as user, and have had good results. But, I just tried rebuilding texstars "aquafusion-icons-0.5.0-2tex.src.rpm" and rpm balked, saying it couldn't access /usr/src/rpm, and it exited the build. I want my rpms to build to ~/rpm.
I have tried to RTFM about rpm, but find it thoroughly confusing. Any advice/help would be truly appreciated.
Best regards to all.
--Angus
Angus, have you made sure that you have user write permissions to /usr/src/RPM and subdirectories? Make the write permissions for that directory accessable and you should be good to go. HTH Dennis M.
