On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 07:42, Warren Togami wrote:
Proposal
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rpm-4.2.2 in rawhide and all future versions should refuse to install
SRPMS & build packages as root by default. Optionally add a .rpmmacro
option to re-enable it, but only mention that option for advanced users
on
rpm.org to really discourage its use.
This would go a long way toward discouraging the improper and sometimes
dangerous practice of building RPMS as root.
While I do support this idea, I also think a good first step would be to
ship /usr/lib/rpm/macros with something other than
topdir=/usr/src/redhat
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Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop(a)alert.infoplease.com>