I hope this list is appropriate for asking a question regarding rpm file
ownership. As a relative rpm newbie, I suspect I'm missing some piece of
"secret sauce" that's just obvious to anyone with rpm experience. If
there's a more appropriate place to post the question, I'd appreciate a
pointer. Thanks in advance.
The application in question is named ddcutil. I'm creating directories
/usr/share/ddcutil and /usr/share/doc/ddcutil and saving files in them.
rpm marks the files as being owned by ddcutil, but not the directories.
As I read the documentation (e.g. e.g.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package,
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/build.html), a directory is regarded
as being owned by an application if the directory name is specified
either a) without the %dir macro (in which case all files in the
directory tree rooted at the specified name are marked owned and
installed) or b) prefaced by the %dir macro, in which case only the
directory is marked. I've tried both ways.
The observed problem is similar for /usr/share/ddcutil and
/usr/share/doc/ddcutil, so I'll give details only for the former.
Here's the relevant segment from the %files section:
%{_datadir}/%{name}
Alternatively, I've tried coding the segment as follows:
%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}
%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/data
%{_datadir}/%{name}/data/*rules
%{_datadir}/%{name}/data/90-nvidia-i2c.conf
In either case, the built rpm creates the directories and saves the
files. The individual files are regarded as being owned by ddcutil, but
not the directories.
What do I need to do to cause the directories to be owned?
In more detail, querying rpm shows that the files are saved and are
owned by ddcutil, but the directories are not owned by ddcutil:
[rock@banner results]$ rpm -ql ddcutil
/usr/bin/ddcutil
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/011d82f3eab5166e52eec359cb76b0773fd965
/usr/share/ddcutil/data/45-ddcutil-i2c.rules
/usr/share/ddcutil/data/45-ddcutil-usb.rules
/usr/share/ddcutil/data/90-nvidia-i2c.conf
/usr/share/doc/ddcutil/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ddcutil/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ddcutil/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ddcutil/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/ddcutil.1.gz
[rock@banner results]$ rpm -qf
/usr/share/ddcutil/data/45-ddcutil-i2c.rules
ddcutil-0.8.3-1.fc27.x86_64
[rock@banner results]$ rpm -q --whatprovides
/usr/share/ddcutil/data/45-ddcutil-i2c.rules
ddcutil-0.8.3-1.fc27.x86_64
[rock@banner results]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/ddcutil
file /usr/share/ddcutil is not owned by any package
[rock@banner results]# rpm -qf /usr/share/ddcutil
file /usr/share/ddcutil is not owned by any package
The report from fedora-review is consistent with rpm --query:
[ ]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
Note: No known owner of /usr/share/doc/ddcutil
[ ]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
Note: Directories without known owners: /usr/share/doc/ddcutil,
/usr/share/ddcutil, /usr/share/ddcutil/data
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