From: Simon J Mudd (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 15:48:50 EDT
(Keith Matthews) writes:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:13:09 +0200 Dominik Mierzejewski <Dominik Mierzejews=
> ki <>> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 15 October 2001, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I have been building Postfix rpms for some time and try to keep them
> > > up to date and as error free as possible, but I do this in my own time.
>
> > I tried building your RPM today and noticed you require to build it
> > as root.
[snip]
> While Simon may be able to justify it I have to say that I regard
> compiling things under root as bad practice from a security point of
> view (along with running X as root - which you have to do to run KDE
> control centre, linuxconf or many other things - unless you are a
> technically quite savvy user that is).
I know that the build can be done differently. Wietse has spent a lot
of time writing a pretty bullet proof install script. I'm trying to
use it. If it is easy to separate out the root specific needs from
the non-root specific needs then this may help convince me to change
the way I do the install and thus the requirement to build the rpm as
root.
I haven't really had time to look at this and see if it requires
little changes to my current spec file. If the root build requirement
can be changed with little impact on my spec file then I'm certainly
willing to make the change.
Simon
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