Got that. Thanks a lot! John Craws On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:33:12PM -0400, John Craws wrote: > >> I'm trying to create an RPM package and ran into the following problem: >> >> ---- >> %files >> %defattr(644,someuser,someuser,755) >> >> %attr(755,someuser,someuser) /opt/adirectory/sbin/myfile >> --- >> >> I can build the rpm and install it (/opt/adirectory does not exist). >> However, while /opt/adirectory/sbin/myfile will have the correct >> permissions and owner, /opt/adirectory/sbin will be owned by root when >> I expected it to be owned by someuser (because of the %defattr). > > No, wrong expectation. Parent directories for all files/directories > in the packages should already exist or be included in the package > itself, otherwise they end up to be created as root with some default > permission (not recommended, of course, and they won't be removed > when the package is removed). > >> If I directly specify the inclusion of the /opt/adirectory/sbin >> directory, then it will have the correct owner. However, I do not want >> to do that as I do not want the RPM to 'own' /opt/adirectory/sbin' >> because I have to create other RPMs that also have to install files to >> /opt/adirectory/sbin and RPM will refuse to install them because of >> conflicts (if I use the same technique). >> >> I haven't been able to find information on how to do that. Is there a >> way to do what I intend to do using only the spec file? > > If you have multiple packages including /opt/adirectory/sbin, decide > what owner/group/permission you want to give it and you can include > this directory in %files of *all* packages that need it. As long as > the owner/group/permission is the same, no conflicts will occur. > > -- > -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
