[olug] rpm

[tbrownarcher]

thanks, Jay


On Wednesday 13 August 2003 08:23 pm, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> The tilde (~) indicates the home directory for the current user.
>
> which is what (from your email) as what you wanted to do.......
>
> so you would end up with
>
> /home/nate/rpm
> /home/nate/rpm/BUILD
> /home/nate/rpm/RPMS
> /home/nate/rpm/RPMS/i386
> /home/nate/rpm/RPMS/i586
> /home/nate/rpm/RPMS/noarch
> /home/nate/rpm/SOURCES
> /home/nate/rpm/SRPMS
> /home/nate/rpm/SPECS
> /home/nate/rpm/tmp
>
> if you want to put the tree somwhere else, take away the ~ and
> put the full path to where you want it, or cd to where you want
> to put the tree and do the mkdir without the first /
> i.e. mkdir -p rpm/BUILD
>
> > I'm reading up on the rpm for mandrake at the mandrake-com site.
> > Under 3. Preliminary tasks ....... 3.1  Create required folders it says
> > to create a tree under the home directory with this command
> >
> >  mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS/i586,RPMS/noarch,SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,tmp}
> >
> > I went to the home dir (my prompt looks like this ---
> > [nate at ip68-99-31-221 home]$
> > and invoked the command above and the result was that it put the tree
> > under
> > the /home/nate direcory.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Nate
> >
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