On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:40:40PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of > (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do > with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always > wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind? I'd like to be able to really setup chroot w/o any root privilegdes. This already works at 99% using fakeroot/fakechroot. There is some code in rpm that didn't swallow the fake environment. It didn't look too difficult to fix. :) The application is very important: Currently any submitter can take over any builder by placing some code in %post*/%pre* scripts and making this package a BR of another package. Being root makes it easy to escape the chroot and perform root operations at the builder level (unless the builders are properly selinux protected). A secondary benefit of fakeroot/fakechroot support would be that any random student on any random Linux system could deploy a build system under his account and produce nice rpm packages w/o the need for root priviledges on these systems. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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