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

[Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik aaf16 warszawa sdi tpnet pl>]

On Wednesday, 30 January 2002, Andrew Chapman wrote:
[snip]
> 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?

Actually, it's the best practice there is. If you don't build
as root, you (usually) have no write access to sensitive system
directories and can't overwrite anything when rpm is doing
%install (or anything else, actually), even if the %install
part is broken enough to install things outside $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
(or if you set it to some stupid location like /).

HTH

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)we.are.one.pl>