On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:44:21 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 05:30 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > For the record: > > > > > > My issue is: IMO, the default settings rpmbuild uses, must be safe > > against arbitrary users running rpmbuild in a multi user environment. > > [...] > > Just to also mention that (for the record) that the scenario you mention > here has happened in real life for me and a colleague. Without knowing, > we were building the same SRPM on a test-build machine separately, and > things got really weird. My colleague spent quite a while trying to fix > the problem from her side, because she didn't know the possible problem > with the build root. It was a core package. Funny. Because by default you can only build as superuser, since it needs write-access to /usr/src/redhat/. As soon as you set up a local ~/.rpmmacros, you can define %_buildroot and point it to a private location. Problem solved. For example: %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/tmp/rpm %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp %_buildroot %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list