[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: Re: slackbuild script dangers [volkerdi at slackware.com]

[Eric Hameleers]

Mark Flacy wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>You might find the attached email interesting.  I intend to modify any scripts which I write according to Pat's response.
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> Mark Flacy wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> I can't really say this is a bug, but it has bitten me in the behind
>> a few times.  The scripts will 'cd' into /tmp, explode the source
>> archive, 'cd' into the new source directory and then recursively
>> chown everything in there to root.root.
>>
>> If, for some reason, the "explode the source archive" didn't work you
>> end up recursively chowning *everything* in /tmp to root.root.  That
>> includes all the user-specific directories used by KDE, Gnome,
>> ssh-agent, and so on.  If you aren't root, things stop working. 
>> That's really annoying.  :-)
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The SBo scripts build everything in "/tmp/SBo" which alleviates the
potential problem quite a lot.

Eric