Proposal: rpm-4.2.2 should refuse to build as root

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 07:42, Warren Togami wrote:
> Proposal
> ========
> rpm-4.2.2 in rawhide and all future versions should refuse to install 
> SRPMS & build packages as root by default.  Optionally add a .rpmmacro 
> option to re-enable it, but only mention that option for advanced users 
> on rpm.org to really discourage its use.
> 
> This would go a long way toward discouraging the improper and sometimes 
> dangerous practice of building RPMS as root.

While I do support this idea, I also think a good first step would be to
ship /usr/lib/rpm/macros with something other than
topdir=/usr/src/redhat

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Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com>