rpmbuild

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:05:48 -0700


> Re  the `ss chown -R root.root mlton-$version', for the `export' version, you
> should just eliminate the ss, and point out that you have to be  root  to  do
> it.   The  problem is that we want the installed sources to be owned by root,
> but we are not willing to have the sources on the development machines  owned
> by root.  (I am definitely NOT disagreeing with this choice.)

I don't like forcing them to be root just to make rpms.  What about just taking
out the ss, and only doing the chown if they call the script as root?