Webcam choice

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 20:45 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 17:54, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > OK - last hurdle, I hope:
> > >
> > > *** The "rpmbuild" program is not in your PATH!
> > >
> > > This is root, of course.  I've found
> > >
> > > usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.4.so
> > >
> > > so how do I append it to root's path?   I'm sure I should know this, but
> > > I just can't remember.
> >
> > Um, what are you trying to do now? You don't need rpmbuild to build a
> > kernel module. Have you moved on to something else now>
> >
> No, still the same install of webcam drivers, but I was using checkinstall so 
> that it would be handled by the yum database.
> 
> > Don't build RPMs as root anyway. You'll need the rpm-build package and
> > then you can build them as a regular user.
> > http://www.city-fan.org/tips/CreateRPMBuildEnvironment
> >
> I'll look at that tomorrow.  I just hope this is worth it.  I do wonder 
> whether I want to get the webcam going enough to spend much more time on it.
> 
> I appreciate your help, though

It's not worth looking at if you're using checkinstall; that needs to
"see" you do a regular install and then mimics it in the rpm spec.
You'll need to be root to do that, which isn't the case for regular
hand-written rpm specs.

Paul.