proposed mock changes (diff)

Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com
Mon Jul 17 19:49:30 UTC 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jason L Tibbitts III
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:44 PM
> To: Discussion of Fedora build system
> Subject: Re: proposed mock changes (diff)
> 
> >>>>> "MEB" == Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com> writes:
> 
> MEB> I just caught up on the rpmlint discussion, and have a few 
> MEB> concerns.
> 
> MEB> Security of installing just-built RPM
> 
> Can't be any worse than actually building the package, can it?

Building package happens as user running mock, not root. Package install
happens as root.

> 
> MEB> Can rpmlint just be done outside of mock (using mock chroot, for 
> MEB> example)?
> 
> Yes, as long as mock continues to give me a way to run a 
> command in the chroot and some equivalent of "mock-helper 
> yum".  I was just asking for a way to do it, not that it 
> actually be added as base functionality.

Ok, cool. I think this is the way to go with this, then.
--
Michael




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