Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, reg@xxxxxxx wrote: >>> I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. >>> How do I 'rip it apart' ?? >> rpm -qpl src.rpm >> >> should show you a list of the files in the RPM. When you "install" it, >> they get installed in your rpmbuild sandbox under: SPECS and SOURCES >> subdirectories. >> >>> Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but I >>> have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. >>> They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in /root/rpmbuild. >> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root. Look in your >> user RPM sandbox: > > Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible. I think its > asinine that I am prevented from building my kernels as a user, simply > because mkinird cannot be made to run if you are not root. > You don't need mkinitrd to build a kernel, you need it to *install* a kernel, two different operations. After you do the make you can make modules_install and install with the -n option (if you wish) to inspect what they will do, or just "su -c "make modules_install modules" after the build is done. You didn't ask: I run my build in a script command, so I have the details of any error messages. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
