Chapter 6: Do packages need to be built as root?

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Jonathan Oksman wrote:
> Anywho, the test was to find out if chapter 6 packages were required
> to be built as root as the book details it.  I'm considering trying
> this again but I'm not entirely sure if I have the time to deviate
> that much from the book without losing sight of my own projects at
> hand.  Has anyone tried this?  If so, what degree of success did it
> produce?

I tried this when collecting material for the "RPM: proof of concept" mail. It 
worked at least up to bash, as you can see from that message. The only thing 
that I had to change were procps instructions.

Note: this requires a package manager that will set the correct permissions and 
ownership on the installed files. Just a plain "make install" may or may not work.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov