Ah i think i know whats happening: - First rpmbuild pulls in the files (and file permissions!) from the symlinked tree you specified - On installing the rpm, rpm tries to reset the file ownership to the original owner (otheruser.otheruser) .. that then fails Try copying the whole tree into your home dir (cp should set file owner ship to your account's), and then package that into the RPM .. However then the UID of the files would be hardcoded again to your user account's UID.. I gues rpm just isnt made for installing software in your home dir :-| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick L. Nolan" <pln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 00:05 Subject: Newbie's second RPM: Install fails > 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 > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
