Oh yes, you're right. Thanks. Feeling dumb now.
sent from my phone.
On 24 Aug 2011 14:51, "Paul Howarth" <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
On 08/22/2011 05:12 PM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 22 August 2011 16:59, Paul Howarth<paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
>> I'm surprised this builds at all in mock: it's trying to give away
ownership
>> of the file to root, which is a privileged operation. If you
patch it
not to
>> try to do "-o root -g root" then it should work OK,
and the resulting
files
>> will be owned by root anyway.
>
> Looking a little closer at the install script, it actually performs a
> check to see if it is running as root, and if not doesn't set those
> owner/group permissions - in other branches, this check works
> correctly. So the question is, why does mock in EPEL 5 run as root,
> but not in EPEL6 and Fedora? This seems like a bit of a security
> issue!
It's not. Your spec file is missing a BuildRoot: tag, which is still
needed for EPEL-5. Without it, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is not set and PREFIX
(which upstream has renamed to DESTDIR) is thus empty, and the check for
root never happens.
Paul.
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