Re: [Security Firewall] Get CVS

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:30:18PM +0000, Nigel Tingle wrote:
> Thanks
> 
> I got those to build - but I had to create a link as follows:
> 
> Building as root on Mandriva 2005LE:
              ^^^^
nonononono...

> 
> cd /root
> ln -s /usr/src/RPM rpm
> 
> That was because the build of backend created
> 
>    /root/rpm/SOURCES/naat-backend-0.8.tar.bz2
> 
> but then expected to be able to reference it as:
> 
>    /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/naat-backend-0.8.tar.bz2
> 
> I now have: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/{noarch|i586}

Don't build rpm packages as root.
Create a ~/.rpmmacros file in your home dir as explained here:
http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo

> So I guess the next question is, is there a (documented) (minimalist) 
> list of  packages to be installed on the firewall
> together with the above?  (The target is not the box I'm building on!)

There is the mnf-en rpm package itself which has many dependencies. Try
installing it and its requirements.

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