Obtaining 2.6.8-1.541 source code

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Wed Sep 15 10:39:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:21:53PM -0700, Steve G wrote:
> 
> >Not possible. Some rpms try to change owners and permisssions on the
> >installed files, and will fail if not run as root.
> 
> These are broken. I have submitted patch after patch to fix every one of them
> that I can find. If you know of any, please let me know (off the list) and I will
> personally put the patch into bugzilla.

Yes, I also think it a bug. If I find any again, I'll report them.

> 
> You should never ever build rpms as root. Your whole box can be messed up by one
> bad package. Most rpms in fedora are in good shape, its the little used ones you
> download from somebody's homepage that is most likely to give you a bad day.
> 
> Who cares what acct kernel source is under? You should always install it fresh
> when you are building and then delete it. If you really care about security, you
> won't install it to /usr/src anyways, you tweak your %_topdir variable in
> .rpmmacros in your home directory (not the /usr/lib/rpm/rpmmacros) to point to a
> place within your home directory. You should never use /usr/src for any serious
> work. Problem solved.

That's what I do. But it's annoying, after some hours of compilation, to
came back and see rpm failed in the install part...

Regards,
Luciano Rocha





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