On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Thursday 07 August 2003 10:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Ownership of the files in the cpio archive itself is not relevant. The > > permissions on each file are part of the rpm header, and set as part of > > the %files part of the spec. > > if you remember to set it up: it isn't by default, and almost nobody uses it. > > > Note: ownership of files is set by user and group names. Not by suer and > > group IDs. If when an rpm package is installed a certain user or group > > wqith the appropriate name does not exist , root (actually: 0, I figure) > > will be used. this will generate an install-time warning. > > which is ugly, IMO, and anoying.
Debian's workaround for the same problem is to build everything under fakeroot (when building pakages as user). I find rpm's solution cleaner. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
