On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > > > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all > > > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. Whereas > > > if you had installed the file as an rpm the files would all be correctly > > > owned. > > > > This is why alien prints warning messages if you run it as a non-root > > user. If you want owners to be preserved, use root or fakeroot. > > Negative. The above is true even if you run alien as root. > > You are probably not seeing it before because many rpms are build as > root and so the rpm2cpio shows the file as root. But since many build > rpms as a non-root user most contributed rpms such as the ones that I > build are built by a non-root user and the cpio files inside are not > root owned.
That sounds mostly like a bug in the .rpm packages to me. Avoiding this is exactly why all Debian packages are built with either real root or fakeroot; in fact, I think it's why fakeroot was written in the first place. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
