On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 10:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Place the SRPM in /usr/sr/redhat/SRPMS
> > Then run : rpm -i <src rpm>
> > The spec file will show up in: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> >
> This will only work if you run it as root. And the SRPM can be in
> any directory. If you have set up your normal user to build RPMs,
> then running it as a normal user will install the files in the
> $HOME/rpmbuild directory tree.
To use a personal build tree, install rpmdevtools and run
rpmdev-setuptree. There is also in that package rpmdev-extract, which
looks like it might do what the OP wants.
>
> Mikkel
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