On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:37:37AM +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:53:27 -0800 (PST), nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> wrote:
| > Faheem Mitha said:
| > after it's compiled it usually dumps a binary rpm somewhere in
| > /usr/src/rpms.
|
| Yes, this is what should happen in theory. However, this does not work
| either, at least on the new computer. I get similar errors, ie.
|
| laplace:/home/faheem# rpm --rebuild plugger-4.0-17.src.rpm
| Installing plugger-4.0-17.src.rpm
| error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Back when I used redhat that was where it would unpack a source rpm
to. Does that directory exist? Does the user running rpm have
permission to create it? (I suspect not to both)
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