From: Matt Armstrong (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 07:01:34 EDT
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:37:26PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 12:16:35 (+0100), Keith Matthews wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re[2]: Intriqued by Bsd 4.4
> >
> > You will find that many rpms insist on being built under root, KDE
> > being a prime example.
>
> that's very sad.
>
> the build should NEVER be done as root
>
> the _install_ on the other hand....
Check out http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/fakeroot.html
> > We are being bitten again by the conflicts between good security
> > practices and convenience.
>
> Indeed -- but there are alternatives, such as the *BSD pkgsrc/ports
> stuff. In NetBSD you can do an entire "make package" and it'll ask
> for the root password only when it needs the privileges.....
Or check out http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/fakeroot.html. I
was actually surprised this package isn't common outside of Debian.
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