What is user machbuild?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:18:09PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> You either do build the src.rpm as root (there is no security risk
> involved), or you use fakeroot. Wrt machbuilder: since mach is running
> selected parts anyway as suid root, it could add this to its root
> tasks, too.

But what's the gain? Instead, RPM should just ignore the owner of src.rpm
files. (Which it basically does, except for the warning.)

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