Hi,

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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?

Using a separate attribute ;) Creating a "%files" list, you can specify permission attributes as follows:

%files
%defattr(-, root, root)
/usr/bin/foo
%attr(750, user, group) /usr/bin/bar

Unfortunately, I cannot build the rpm program on darwin:

bash-2.05a$ ./configure
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `unknown-apple-darwin6.6': machine `unknown-apple' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub unknown-apple-darwin6.6 failed

There is a patch available for building rpm under OS X 10.2. Have a look at http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~fujiik/macosx/10.2.X/ under 'Ported Source Packages for MacOS X directory' you'll find a patch. I haven't tried it myself, thought.


Cheers,
                Remi

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