On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:33 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > Your guess is as good as mine, but I don't know why it would need to > > change. > > %defattr and %attr appear to use different syntax, as I tried to use the > same %defattr syntax for an %attr line and RPM balked. Making them > consistent would be nice. I don't think consistency is necessarily a very good thing here because as you noticed, %defattr and %attr are different. Somewhat simplified; %defattr specifies default ownership and _optionally different modes_ for files and dirs for stuff on lines after it in %files, while %attr specifies the _same mode_ and ownership for all the stuff following it on the same line in %files, regardless if the stuff is dirs or files. The same/different modes difference is most important with %files entries that recurse and match both files and dirs. %defattr(<mode-for-non-dirs>,<user>,<group>[,<mode-for-dirs>]) %attr(<mode-for-everything-on-this-line>,<user>,<group>) /some/thing -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
