Re: rpmbuild as root or user

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• Subject: Re: rpmbuild as root or user
• From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:09:07 -0500
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:09:53PM +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Is it safe to rpmbuild postfix.src on FC4 platform as root, or
> preferably as a user?

FC-devel and Fedora Extras use mock to do the build.  Mock won't let you
run it as root. :-)

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Matt Domsch
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