Somebody in the thread at some point said: > than the others suggested. I consider working with RPMs to be a root > thing so it would never occur to me to try to build rpms as a normal > user. I can't see how they wold ever install correctly. AIUI rpmbuild simply puts the desired uids into the cpio archive to control the uid on them when they're unpacked... at no point does it need to 'be' that uid at build time. It just says, "yep, unpack this as root:root, here's the file..." as it creates the cpio archive, all as the build user. The *unpack* guy has to be root to live up to the uids specified in the archive is all. Things can easily go horribly wrong using rpmbuild as root, allowing the package to take a dump on your real filesystem as it builds. -Andy
