On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:50:05PM +0100, sardine wrote:
> I've installed cauldron in a vmware vm, and wanting to rebuild a rpm as a
> user in my /home I've setup the build environment as usual (I've done that a
> lot of times in the past and even a few weeks ago). For me everything is OK
> but a src.rpm install gives this output :
>
>
> [jerome@localhost Téléchargements]$ LC_ALL=C rpm -i
> getmail-4.35.0-1.mga3.src.rpm
> error: failed to create directory %{_topdir}: / /home/jerome/rpm: Permission
> denied
> error: getmail-4.35.0-1.mga3.src.rpm cannot be installed
That message implies that it's trying to create a directory called "/
/home/jerome/rpm" i.e. with a space, for which a Permission denied error
would be expected. It looks to me like there's a configuration
problem somewhere.
>>> Dan
