[arch-general] makepkg running as root

[Guus Snijders]

2008/1/22, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 22, 2008 6:09 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > It's a quite stupid protection to do in coreutils. On FreeBSD, the /
> > directory has a flag so that you can't change or delete the / itself. They
> > also do this on special system files that shouldn't be overwritten (that's
> > why you can't tar up a FreeBSD system and unpack it on a random other box).
>
> Agreed. The FreeBSD way is much more sane, though I guess we could
> model it with immutable files in a way

Hmm, that would perhaps work for Arch (where one can assume capable
users), but personally i like coreutils' approach better.

A disadvantage with immutable files is that *the rest* would be removed...


mvg,
      Guus