Re: kernel-2.6.7 build 499

[Michel Salim <michel salim gmail com>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 08:31:55 -0700 (PDT), Steve G <linux_4ever yahoo com> wrote:
> >Which is not in the standard path for normal users.
> 
> take.) But more importantly, what this means is that the Fedora build server
> (that all binaries come from) compiles the packages as root. That is dangerous
> for the buildserver since that depmod call I reported will succeed on the
> buildserver.
> 

On a buildsystem with chroot, it should not matter that packages are
rebuilt as 'root' .. it does mean that you need to duplicate a Fedora
install inside the chroot though. That's what mach does.. then again,
I agree that in general packages should be buildable as normal users.

Regards,

- Michel