Ok.. which I then must ask the question, if you are building RPMs as a non-root user, why do you want the ownership to be set to root? Is it because you don't want people to see your username? This sounds like just a cosmetic thing. 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 01:43:12 PM: > A non-root user can set the ownership permissions when creating a > tarball (using --owner and --group options) and I would assume they > could with cpio as well. Since the %files section only applies to > binary RPMs, that solution won't do what I want. > > I would like the following output: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > $ rpm -qlvp dsh-2.0.1-aspen1.src.rpm > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bryans bryans 24936 Oct 13 11:14 dsh-2.0.1.tar.bz2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 bryans bryans 1295 Oct 13 11:14 dsh.spec > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To be this instead: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > $ rpm -qlvp dsh-2.0.1-aspen1.src.rpm > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 24936 Oct 13 11:14 dsh-2.0.1.tar.bz2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1295 Oct 13 11:14 dsh.spec > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > That way I don't get warnings like this during a rebuild of the SRPM as > a different user: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > warning: user bryans does not exist - using root > warning: group bryans does not exist - using root > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Bryan > > -- > Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ > Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 > bryans@xxxxxxxxxx | Fax: (303)431-7196 > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:33:09PM -0400, James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >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
