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. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/