Brian wrote: > Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an > unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere > (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. <snip/> > (The reason I'm asking, in case you're interested, is that I'm automating > the build using a simple bash script for each package, and it would be > simpler to run everything as root rather than having to add 'sudo' to my > system, which is the only other way I can see of doing it.) > > Thanks, > > Brian >
Take a look at JHALFS - it is a bash script which reads "the book" (LFS, BLFS, CLFS and HLFS) it extracts all the commands and builds makefiles to automate the entire process. It requires sudo and, I think, jumps back and forth between root and unprivileged user as needed by the commands. We have all probably used root more than we probably should until we do the "rm -r *" thing - then we learn ;-) Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
