On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:44 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > I'm packaging cricket and rpmlint complains: > > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/config/Defaults cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/config/Defaults apache > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/config cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/config apache > cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /etc/cricket/config 0771 > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket apache > cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /etc/cricket 0771 > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl apache > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/log/cricket cricket > cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /var/log/cricket 0775 > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/subtree-sets cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/subtree-sets apache > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /var/cache/cricket apache > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/cache/cricket cricket > cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/lib/cricket cricket > cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /var/lib/cricket 0775 > > What is the rationale for these warnings and errors, and why should > the package avoid using them? Basically, rpmlint is asking: Why are these files owned by users/groups I don't recognize? and Why do these directories have odd permissions (771 and 775 are a little unique)? If you have good answers for these questions, they're safe to ignore. ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
