On Thursday 07 August 2003 10:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Building packages as a regular user is recommended for testing, but if > > you want to build binary packages and distribute them, you'd better do > > that as root, otherwise you'll have lots of premissions and ownership > > issues. > > 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. -- Oded ================================================================= 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]
