Re: /usr/src/redhat missing

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 05/27/05

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    Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:17:28 +0100
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Matthew Miller wrote:
    > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:37:26PM +0800, Serge de Souza wrote:
    >
    >>>there.I created redhat directory under /usr/src .Under redhat
    >>>directory I created RPMS,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS subdirectories and
    >>>under RPMS subdirectory I created athlon,i386,i486,i586,i686 and
    >>>noarch directories.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    >>You need to install the rpm-build rpm
    >
    >
    > But beyond that, you should create a per-user RPM build area in your own
    > home directory and build RPMs as a normal user, not as root. See:
    > <http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/buildtree/>

    A quick way of setting this up is to install fedora-rpmdevtools from
    Fedora Extras and then run the "fedora-buildrpmtree" script as the user
    you want to build RPMs as.

    Paul. 

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