On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:32, Stephen Walton wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 09:25, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:28, Colin Charles wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:12, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > > > I hope Fedora News stops instructing newbies to use root for anything > > > Erm, I don't think thats what I did. > > > > I don't know who actually wrote the article, but the article clearly > > says: > > > > su - > > cvs -d... > > tar ... > > rpmbuild ... > > rpm ... > > I don't know about that specific article, but the one on creating an RPM > of Acrobat used root for everything as well. Unfortunately, the only > way around using root for "rpmbuild", as far as I can tell, is to do > "chmod -R user:user /usr/src". Which I do myself, actually, but I am > not sure of all the implications. > > True story: an early version of the HP C compiler on HP-UX tried to "rm > /dev/null" which, of course, succeeded if you ran cc as root and the > system then crashed. So I fully agree with the central idea of not > using root unless you must. I think the real question is, how best to > not require root for things like rpmrebuild? http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html Originally written by Mike Harris of Red Hat. This is the best way to setup and have a 'user' rpmbuild environment. Regards Philip Wyett -- Email: philip@xxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.wyett.net Public key: http://www.wyett.net/gpg/public_key.txt --
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