Jos Vos wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:33:15AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=125515> > > Hmm... I now also found a thread about it last year on this list. > > It seems that there is no consensus that this is very useful > feature :-(. A feature that is very easy and harmless implement. I have never actually run into that problem myself. However it would be easy to handle this outside rpm if you felt it important. Just use 'fakeroot'[1] when building. fakeroot rpmbuild -ba file.spec 'fakeroot' is one of those really useful utilities that you never knew exited but once understood then you suddenly can't ever live without it again. Bob [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot/
