building ppp from src rpm failed in f17

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 19:56:38 UTC 2012


On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:38:54 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

> for sure, try to understand how rpmbuild works
> 
> * unpack the sources
> * run configure
> * make install in the buildroot
> * pack the RPM is all files are existing and listed in the %files section
> 
> and that is why running as root makes pretty no sense
> / from the view of the build-rpcoess is the clean buildroot
> under rpmbuild and anything which tries ot break out there
> is simply a bug which must not happen

It's not even necessary to "break out" of anything, since nothing
forces the build'n'install procedure to stay in the builddir/buildroot.

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