[Cooker] RE: Are we interested in IPSec (FreeS/WAN) in the kernel RPMs?

[Brian J. Murrell]

from the quill of "Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> Maybe I'm being naive here but...
> 
> Seeing as nobody but root should be able to change the installed
                                              ^^^^^^
>  kernel,
> what's the problem with requiring it to be built by root?
                                             ^^^^^

Change (install) != build!  There is no reason one should need to build
a package as root, that I have come across so far anyway.  The %install
process can royally hose your system if you do not develop it in a
contained environment, which root is not.

b.


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