On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:18:09PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > You either do build the src.rpm as root (there is no security risk > > involved), or you use fakeroot. Wrt machbuilder: since mach is running > > selected parts anyway as suid root, it could add this to its root > > tasks, too. > > But what's the gain? Instead, RPM should just ignore the owner of src.rpm > files. (Which it basically does, except for the warning.) Indeed, fixing rpm would be the better road, but for now you have the above workarounds (if needed). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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