On 24 Aug 2011 14:51, "Paul Howarth" <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
> On 08/22/2011 05:12 PM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> On 22 August 2011 16:59, Paul Howarth<paul@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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