Re: error: can't unlink opt-RPMDELETE: directory

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob tisbrasil com br>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:47:54PM -0500, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> rodrigob@tisbrasil.com.br (Rodrigo Barbosa) writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:42:15AM -0600, Andrew Chapman wrote:
> > > One quick question, I work on libraries, I am not a system 
> > > administrator, so I do not have root permission. I build the 
> > > rpm file in a 'non-root' account. Is this bad practice, should 
> > > I build as root?
> > Actualy, as far as I'm concerned, this is The Right Thing(tm) to do.
> > The building process can screw up your system badly very easily, whenever
> > you do some minor mistake on the specfile.
> Isn't it so that the install process, which must run as root, can also
> (heavily) damage a system with a small error in %pre or %post, etc. ?

Yeah. But it's better have one point of problem then 10, don't you think ?

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