-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 May 2003 11:44 pm, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:14, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > Normally, you don't have to be root to build rpms. You can just set > > up a non root rpm build environment in your home directory. > I can accept I don't need to be root to build rpms, but how often is it > useful? An rpm is usually to install some software, and most of that > seems to need to be root. Or am I displaying my naivete? True, you must be root to install binary rpm packages. However, rebuilding packages from source is also common. Now, suppose I rebuilt an rpm package containing a specfile defining: RPM_BUILD_ROOT="/" rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT As root, the system would be trashed, as a normal user, "permission denied" would begin scrolling down the screen. Obviously, this is a lame example, but it illustrates that things can go wrong. When they do, better to be a mortal user than root. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+s0H7n/07WoAb/SsRAt/cAJ0czCjBweX+X4mr7FFYdjLpqWdPwACcDIw3 m2d4HPeqCUgcrU9khSSLvwM= =P8gz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
