Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> In a %files section of a specfile, the %defattr directive is used to set
> the default file ownership and permissions. RPM has provided a sensible
> default since version 4.4 (which predates FC6 and RHEL5), but very many
> specfiles still include an initial %defattr line like
> "%defattr(-,root,root,-)" as the initial line in a %files section even
> though this has not been needed for well over a decade now. This
> construct even appears in new specfiles, perhaps because it appears in
> so many existing packages.
Why is that a problem? The line will have no effect. So why can't we just
leave it there?
Kevin Kofler
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