2009/6/2 Just E. Mail <justem...@imwell-usa.com>: > ------------- > [r...@rs1 Desktop]# rpm -Uvh postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm > > warning: postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID > e9198f3d > error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > ------------- > > In the past few days, I have downloaded this file and successfully compiled > it with links to other applications and completed the installation. Today, I > started out with a freshly installed LINUX CentOS 5.3 machine and got the > above error message.
A fresh installation, there's your problem. You'll find that's two separate issues there, try reading the second one. The warning is just that, a warning. [r...@rei tmp]# cd /tmp/ [r...@rei tmp]# wget -q http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.6/SRPMS/postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm [r...@rei tmp]# rpm -Uvh postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm warning: postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e9198f3d error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES [r...@rei tmp]# ls -lh /usr/src/ total 8.0K drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K May 28 12:06 kernels [r...@rei tmp]# mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES [r...@rei tmp]# rpm -Uvh postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm warning: postfix-2.6.1-1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e9198f3d 1:postfix warning: user sjmudd does not exist - using root warning: group sjmudd does not exist - using root warning: user sjmudd does not exist - using root warning: group sjmudd does not exist - using root warning: user sjmudd does not exist - using root <LOTS MORE OF THIS> ########################################### [100%] [r...@rei tmp]# ls -lh /usr/src/redhat/ total 16K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 02:07 SOURCES drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 02:07 SPECS Yeah, this makes more sense if you've dealt with RPM packaging before, there's a handful of directories in a structure that relate to it.
