building own RPMs

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > 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.

Yeah -- "oops, that's not installing to the buildroot at all!"

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