Brad Felmey wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:04, civileme wrote: > > >>Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD >>/SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and >> >>rpm -ivh samba-<version>.src.rpm >> >>in an xterm or console AS USER. >> >>Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built. The >>.spec file should answer your question in most cases. > > > [bfelmey]$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm > error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES >
Check your perms on %sourcedir, and if needed do a chmod BTW did you ever imgagine that you would be so famous, Charles? Dr John
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