Comment # 9
on bug 10737
from Jeff Morriss
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #8)
> If the process of building a package requires a "make install", then either
>
> 1) the "make install" process, when done as part of the process of
> building a package, needs to be tweaked in order to allow it to be done as a
> non-root user (e.g., installing under /tmp)
I guess we could check if $(DESTDIR) is set to something to determine if we're
really installing or just making a package. (If just ignoring the errors isn't
sufficient.)
> or
>
> 2) you don't get to make packages as yourself.
... which is sufficiently evil as to be a non-starter. (The nice--really
nice--thing about making packages as a non-root user, from my perspective
anyway, is that I can be sure I'm not going to hose up the build server if the
software's "make install" has a bug. And I'm pretty sure a lot of package
builders--Redhat comes to mind--strictly prohibit building packages as root for
that reason; that and they've got many thousands of packages they need to
build.)
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