installing source rpm packages (.src.rpm) via yum and yumex?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 7 00:35:07 UTC 2008


Todd Zullinger wrote:

> So, for many reasons, it's just not good practice to build packages as
> root.  IMO, it would be nice if upstream rpm or the fedora packages
> made it harder to do this -- at least spewing a warning about it when
> you did it.

Feel free to file a RFE against RPM.

Rahul




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