rpmbuild as root or user

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Fri Oct 13 03:09:07 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:09:53PM +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Is it safe to rpmbuild postfix.src on FC4 platform as root, or
> preferably as a user?

FC-devel and Fedora Extras use mock to do the build.  Mock won't let you
run it as root. :-)

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