[olug] rpm

[Bob McCoy]

Just one further word of clarification.  Your "home directory" is not
the same as the directory named home.  

As Jay pointed out, "~" is the shortcut notation for "your home
directory," which in this case is equal to "/home/nate".  It is actually
defined by the shell variable HOME.

In systems that follow the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, users'
home directories are created under the /home directory.

I hope that untangles the business about home.  Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jay Swackhamer
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:23 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] rpm


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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