building own RPMs

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sun Dec 26 12:36:45 UTC 2004


On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:57:13 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:41:58PM +0100, RAT wrote:
> > > A few key tips: 
> > >   - don't build as root -- set up the ~/rpmbuild thing instead
> > Why is it so? What's wrong about building rpms as root? 
> 
> Because as root, a mistake in your specfile could hork your whole system.

Not just a mistake in the spec file, but also mistakes or unexpected
behaviour in "configure" scripts and generated Makefiles.




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