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.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>