Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Susemail wrote:
I'm have trouble installing this package:
# rpm -i /home/myhome/bin/MySQL-5.0.16-0.src.rpm warning: /home/myhome/bin/MySQL-5.0.16-0.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5 warning: user mysqldev does not exist - using root warning: user mysqldev does not exist - using root #
This just shows you are installing a non SuSE package, and a src.rpm at that? Is that what you wanted? It shows it installed, but since it is
It does not mean that it's not a SUSE (source) rpm, it merely means the rpm contains files owned by mysqldev, and that user mysqldev doesn't exist on Jerome's computer. Since mysqldev doesn't exist, rpm substitutes "root." In the end, it makes no difference unless you're installing as root, and you should _never_ install source rpms as root. Regarding permissions reported by Anders re /usr/src/packages, that's a nice convenience maybe, but I think way better to configure rpm to build in an area of the users' own, usually in ~. While the standard arrangement works with one users, if you have multiple users, more than one building packages, they you really don't want them all writing into the same area and potentially medling (maybe accidentally) with each others' packages.