Op wo 23-04-2003, om 01:49 schreef Michael Fratoni: > The main argument I can think of against building as root is accidental > misconfiguration. (accidental or intentional, for that matter) > > Most packages during the build process execute: > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > > Now, suppose you were building as root, and I modified the specfile, like > so: > RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/ > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > Ah! I see now. This will fail when a user tries to execute, while it would silently erase the hard disk when executed as root. Thanks for the explanation. One question What command do you use to build a rpm from a src.rpm as a user? rpmbuild --rebuild will fail because the user does not have write access to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES -Tino Meinen
