THUFIR HAWAT (thufir) wrote:
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
rpm can ONLY BE INSTALLED as root.
