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. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
