Re: Installing the new version

[Geoff Beier]

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