Obtaining 2.6.8-1.541 source code

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:00:34PM -0400, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:47 -0500, Gregory G Carter wrote:
> > I am not sure I agree with that notion of non root security locality 
> > when dealing with OS source code.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure of the relevance of this post to the previous, unless I'm
> missing something, but I definitely agree that when building rpms, one
> should use a non-root account. The primary reason is this: some (many?)
> srpms are not spec'd properly and will attempt to alter your actual
> system (e.g. install into /usr instead of /tmp/%{buildroot}/usr). If you
> are a normal user, this will cause the build process to break and you'll
> realize that had you been running as root, the process would appear to
> have worked correctly while in fact now it may have installed files you
> didn't want to install; or worse (blown away files you desperately need,
> etc.).

Not possible. Some rpms try to change owners and permisssions on the
installed files, and will fail if not run as root.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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