Bug 69307

Summary:	Can't install source rpms as non-root user
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Nathan G. Grennan <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-20 17:19:22 UTC

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Description of problem:
Even with .rpmmarcos to redefine the locations you can't install a source rpm
because rpm wants to write to the database.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login as non-root user
2. rpm -i package.src.rpm

	

Actual Results:  Error trying to open database

Expected Results:  For it to come back to the command line and to have installed
the files in the directories that .rpmmarcos specifies.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-20 17:50:51 UTC

If this is rpm-4.1, then the problem is fixed in RawHide.

Otherwise, please reopen this bug.