On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:42:10 pm you wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008 9:33 PM, richard terry <rterry@gnumed.net> wrote:
Sometimes I build packages from AUR, and (obviously wrongly), do this as root.
Today I got this message:
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option.
Can someone explain.
What's to explain that that message didn't already explain?
Just what it could do to your system. See the attatched PKGBUILD (which I adapted from an old one in AuR) I tried to compile it as myself, and it crashed at the end of the build, (sorry didn't keep messages), saying something about not being able to write to some directory or other (ok, so I'm not a geek!!!). When I re-built it as root it worked fine. BTW, could you/someone checkout this PKGBUILD file and tell me what's wrong with the way I've adapted it (I'm assuming its not correct, though it works as I did it with no understanding of what I'm doing. Thanks. Richard