Faheem Mitha wrote: > No. Am I supposed to create it? Isn't this something that should be > done automatically, by a postinst script of whatever? If I am supposed > to create it, I think it should be documented. The directory is supposed to be included in the package but was left out by mistake. I'm fixinig it now. > > Does the user running rpm have > > permission to create it? (I suspect not to both) > > Um. Yes. It is root. (See the #?) Actually, even my user account > (faheem) has permission to create directories in /usr/src. I've > compiled kernels there as user. This is what is so puzzling about this > error message. rpm is trying to mkdir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES, of course this fails if /usr/src/rpm does not exist. It's dumb code and a bad error message. -- see shy jo
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