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Re: Installing the new version
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Geoff Beier |
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Re: Installing the new version |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:32:44 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Cristian Adam wrote:
> > As I said, there was no apparent effect. No source files appeared in
> > /usr/local/src or anywhere else. And certainly no compiling took place.
>
> I'm building a rpm right now (for SuSE 9.0), here is what you need to do:
>
> 1. rpm - i cvs-1.11.10-cvshome.org.1.src.rpm
> 2. goto /usr/src/packages/SPECS
> 3. rpmbuild -ba cvs-1.11.10.spec
> 4.goto /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586
> 5. rpm -Uvh cvs-1.11.10-cvshome.org.1.i586.rpm
>
You have to build as root for this to work, and that is a very bad idea.
(You could inadvertently render your system unusable, and some packages
fail to build if you're root!) Use your %_topdir macro to allow yourself
to build as a normal user, and only install the built product (step 5
there) as root.
Regards,
Geoff
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