> > Paul Howarth wrote: > Why use a user "nobody" for building the packages when there is alreadya user called "nobody" defined for a different purpose? Why not use,say, "rpmbuild" instead? > > Why chown system directories like /usr/src/redhat/* instead of just creating an rpm-build tree in the user's home directory? > > Paul. i've always installed rpm's as root, but i've recently learned this isn't a good idea. what's the "standard" way to do that, please? thanks, Thufir Hawat -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org
