Re: Victory - built subversion from RH9 source rpm!

John Peacock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel,gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Perhaps one solution is to fail the build early if trying to build as 
> root (ie. `id -u` evaluates to zero). 

Except that under Solaris (I believe), root's UID is 1.

> BTW, is Apache (package httpd) a BuildPrereq in that SRPM? It should be, 
> since it's needed for the test phase. Are there any distros that ship an 
> httpd package that does NOT create the user apache? 

Yes, SuSE's Apache user is wwwrun and OS X uses www (if I remeber correctly). 
That's why you usually see a page of RPM's specific to each distro because they 
all do it just a little differently... :-(

John


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