What is user machbuild?

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.)

Indeed, fixing rpm would be the better road, but for now you have the
above workarounds (if needed).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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