On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:18:58PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: >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. I haven't looked at the code yet, but based off your comments it seems that currently there is not a way to change the method in which rpm calls its copy of cpio... It's mostly a cosmetic thing, but I would find SRPMs that print warnings of users and groups not existing to be of amateur quality and not of a professional quality that I would like to display. 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
