how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue May 18 01:09:58 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody
>> decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my specific
>> bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will not run for
>> anybody but root.
>
> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user
> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing
> ANYTHING that's global.

+1


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