After finally getting my Hello World program properly wrapped up in an RPM package, I'm now advancing toward my real goal. The thing I want to do is apparently a bit out of the mainstream, so I have run into a roadblock concerning file permissions. I am dealing with some software that is under someone else's control. I have read access to a directory tree. I want to wrap up that whole tree in a binary RPM. I don't care about a source RPM. I want to make the binary RPM installable by non-root users. I was able to produce the binary RPM by stripping the prep, build, and install portions of the SPEC file to almost nothing. They just create a link to the directory tree so the RPM-making step can find it. It works! The binary RPM is created, and it seems to contain the right things. Things go bad when I try to install the RPM. It fails like this: $ rpm -ivh --dbpath ~/rpm/db --prefix ~/foo facilities-v2r9p0-0.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:facilities error: unpacking of archive failed on file /u/ek/pln/foo/facilities: cpio: chmod failed - Permission denied Notes: * /u/ek/pln/foo and /u/ek/pln/foo/facilities belong to me, and they are writable. * ~/rmp/db was properly set up with rpm --initdb. * -vv doesn't add any useful information. * I added %defattr(-,<myUserID>,<myGroup>) to the SPEC file, and rpm -qplv tells me that the files in the RPM belong to me. The same thing happens with %defattr(-,root,root). * Patrick L. Nolan * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University * _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
