[arch-general] makepkg running as root

Johannes Held mail at hehejo.de
Tue Jan 22 01:47:45 EST 2008


"Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> Just think of what this would do as root in a PKGBUILD:
> 
> build() {
>   echo "You've been pwned!!!"
>   rm -rf /
> }
This is the reason why I always take a look into a PGKBUILD before makepkging
it (as user of course!).

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