On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander <leon...@den.ottolander.nl> wrote: > Hello Keith, > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote: >> [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm >> error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > > /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build > as a normal user (and you should!) you should fix the ownership of those > directories.
NO. Never do this. Use a personal .rpmmacros file to reset your personal working directories, so you can compile locally. %_topdir /home/username/rpm _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
