Proposal: rpm-4.2.2 should refuse to build as root

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:42:00AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> This would also completely solve this silly urban legend surrounding 
> this ugly construct found within many spec files.  If users cannot build 
> as root, then BuildRoot being equal to "/" (which is incredibly unlikely 
> to begin with) cannot destroy their system.

Uh, it can still remove *their* files, which would still be pretty
destructive.  I'd say that piece should stay regardless.

michaelkjohnson

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