See if root has a ~/.rpmrc file, if so, delete it. --- Rainer Koschnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2002 12:51 am, you wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [root@localhost SRPMS]# rpm -i > gaim-0.51-1mdk.src.rpm > > > > error: cannot create %sourcedir > /root/RPM/SOURCES > > > > > > > > Any ideas what's wrong? > > > > > > Is not the dir /RPM/SOURCES already in /usr/src? > > > > my thought was that the macro did not use: > > > > mkdir -p /root/RPM/SOURCES > > > > -- and directory: /root/RPM was missing. > > > > -- Russ Herrold > > RPM is not supposed to use /root/RPM, but /usr/RPM > and it's nos specific to the gaim package, but > happens with every other > source package I try to install or rebuild. > > Rgds, > Rainer >
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