On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:27 -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote: > 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 rpm uses it's own cpio implementation rather than exec'ing cpio. To be honest it's not really that big a deal - it's only for SRPMS, so those experiencing the warning are going to be rebuilding rpms which is a different class of user than installing the software. The sanity of building as non-root is worth the annoyance of the user not exist message. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list