On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> Proposal
> ========
> rpm-4.2.2 in rawhide and all future versions should refuse to install
> SRPMS & build packages as root by default. Optionally add a .rpmmacro
> option to re-enable it, but only mention that option for advanced users
> on
rpm.org to really discourage its use.
I disagree. Save your personal policy decisions for yourself -- don't make
them everyone's.
Building rpm's as root IS incredibly bad idea which should be discouraged.
Even worse when no buildroot is used - once you've seen a package
which (re)moves stuff in /usr/lib during build...
I very much agree with Warrens proposal to simply disallow rpmbuild as
root. Even more, I'd like to see rpm *require* use of buildroot.
- Panu -