On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:15:49PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote: > >Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>If a package were built in user-mode, the executables and libraries > >>built would be owned by that user, and they'd be put in the .deb and > >>then installed, all owned by that user. > > > >This sounds like a .deb limitation; switching to .rpm would solve this > >very issue. > > How is it a .deb issue? You build a .deb from a root tree, just like > RPM, and of course it has to use the user/group/permissions that exist > in that root tree. I'm fairly certain RPM does the same--how else would > it deal with installing a .rpm with files owned by different users?
Any RPM that I've built as a user have installed with my UID (which means I now have to release a new package, since the executables should *not* have been installed with a user as the owner!) -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
