On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > if [ " $(DESTDIR)" = " " ] ; then \ > > if test `...@idcommand@` != "0" ; then \ > > echo "you are not root"; \ > > exit 1; \ > > fi ; \ > > This was basically what I was planning on doing. If they aren't root, > and they haven't set the path to something they can potentially write to, > it won't chmod or mkdir. > > That would cover the bases, right? > Yes. You got it right. RPM installation will typically use DESTDIR=<rpm_base>/<build_root_dir> which will be writeable and hence you need not do any chmod or chown. For a user who plans to use source installation the steps would be % ./configure % make % sudo make install-strip So make will do the usual chmod/chown when it detects that it is running under root user !DSPAM:49d3718532684006790104!
