Oh yes, you're right. Thanks. Feeling dumb now. sent from my phone. <div class="gmail_quote">On 24 Aug 2011 14:51, "Paul Howarth" <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote: > On 08/22/2011 05:12 PM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> On 22 August 2011 16:59, Paul Howarth<<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote: >>> I'm surprised this builds at all in mock: it's trying to give away ownership >>> of the file to root, which is a privileged operation. If you patch it not to >>> try to do "-o root -g root" then it should work OK, and the resulting files >>> will be owned by root anyway. >> >> Looking a little closer at the install script, it actually performs a >> check to see if it is running as root, and if not doesn't set those >> owner/group permissions - in other branches, this check works >> correctly. So the question is, why does mock in EPEL 5 run as root, >> but not in EPEL6 and Fedora? This seems like a bit of a security >> issue! > > It's not. Your spec file is missing a BuildRoot: tag, which is still > needed for EPEL-5. Without it, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is not set and PREFIX > (which upstream has renamed to DESTDIR) is thus empty, and the check for > root never happens. > > Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:epel-devel-list@redhat.com">epel-devel-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list</a> </div>