[CentOS] trouble building an rpm

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 13 09:20:57 UTC 2011


From: Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>

> It's not a good idea to build rpms as root (unless in a throw-away vm). 
> Build as user or even better using mock.

Am I missing something or building an rpm as a non-root user for security 
reason won't do much when, in the end, the rpm will be installed as root...?
Apart from protecting the rpm building host.

JD



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