On Wednesday 01 December 2004 06:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
a short digression -- most of the solutions for installing and
building source rpms require the root password since the rpm-related
commands, by default, like to unload source rpms in /usr/src/redhat.
barf.
RH made a booboo here.
/usr is required to me mountable ro and to be able to be shared between
systems; read FHS and LSB.
/var/src would be a better default, but generally users should be building
software in their own workspace.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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