Re: su in debian.rules
On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Michael E. Deisher wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:52:00 -0500 , "brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> said:
> >> The issue is that *I* consider, for *myself*, the need to become
> >> root to build a package to be a *serious* impediment.
> Accidents always happen but they can be much less destructive if you
> are not root at the time. For instance, a stupid mistake in one of my
> debian.rules files once caused the deletion of / instead of
> ./debian-tmp. :-)
Oh. As a person who compiles all the debian packages for myself, I
almost get a heart attack if (after "make -f debian.rules binary")
a file has leaked into /usr/local/include or /usr/lib. I hope nobody
will ship such "rm -rf /". I will watch you closely, friends! :)
mfg
Rolf Rossius
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