--- Marco Colombo <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Two reasons. First, you may need those permissions > later when building > the package. It's very borderline, but think of a > file --w--w--w-. Or a Got it. > socket, which is more likely. You won't be able to > read it later at cpio > time. Second, you might not be able to set them > right at %install time, > think of setuid. Or a directory that should be 555 > but you still want to setuid - you set any permission for file your are owne (in directory you are owned) directory with mode 555 - it may be created with any permission, files copied in and then 'chmod 555' Valery __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com