rpmbuild as root or user

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 14:18:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:09 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Is it safe to rpmbuild postfix.src on FC4 platform as root, or
> preferably as a user?
> 
> tiA
> 
> Stu@
> 

In general, building RPMs (or anything else for that matter) as root is
considered bad.
It should work never the less.

- Gilboa




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