Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: r3905 - trunk/dist-tools/shipper

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> RPM v3 is still in use on supported SuSE versions, for instance 8.2, and
> they have a nifty "patch RPM" feature for their online update - so it's
> not old enough yet unfortunately.

Bleh.

> I'm not aware of RPM requiring "root" - that's just a matter of
> permissions on directories and all that. RPM v3 supports BuildRoot and
> all that is needed.

Back when I ran Red Hat (around the same time I last programmed Berkeley 
DB :-), root was required for creating rpms so that the ownerships and 
permissions of the installed files would turn out right.  Eric's "go root 
to make the rpm" release procedure is a remnant of that era, even though 
things have changed since then.

> > One of my next steps was going to be removing the references to
> > building the rpm as root.
>
> I'm looking forward to those changes. :-)

Me too, but it'll have to wait until the end of the month.

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