Re: strange problem compiling source rpms
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:37:58 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Great, thanks.
>> > 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.
Oh, I see. I thought something like install -d was the conventional
way to do this.
Faheem.
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