Re: rpmbuild as root or user

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• Subject: Re: rpmbuild as root or user
• From: Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:18:30 +0200
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On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:09 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Is it safe to rpmbuild postfix.src on FC4 platform as root, or
> preferably as a user?
> 
> tiA
> 
> Stu@
> 

In general, building RPMs (or anything else for that matter) as root is
considered bad.
It should work never the less.

- Gilboa

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