Non-root users can't change ownership of files by default.. What you could do is specify the ownership in the %files section of your spec file. James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394 rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/13/2004 01:27:06 PM: > Is there a way while building an SRPM as a non-root user to change the > ownership information of files taken from the SOURCES directory? My > initial ideas of adding the following to my ~/.rpmmacros file didn't > work: > > %__cpio /bin/cpio --no-preserve-owner > > also tried: > > %__cpio /bin/cpio --owner=root:root > > > I didn't see any options in the rpmbuild man page that made sense > either. > > Thanks, > Bryan > > -- > Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ > Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 > bryans@xxxxxxxxxx | Fax: (303)431-7196 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
