On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:11:15PM +0530, Amol Kulkarni wrote: > The qmail makefile creates the files with appropriate permissions and > ownerships. There is no code to set the permissions/ownership in spec file. In %install a package should *never* set ownership of files, as you should be able to build the package as *any* user (building a package as root is almost a crime ;-)). If the Makefile does this, you should apply a patch in your package to avoid this. > In RHEL4, rpm was automatically taking the file permissions set on the files > during the build/compile phase. But in RHEL6, it is changing the ownership > to root.root. > > My files section is : > > %files > /var/qmail/bin > /var/qmail/boot > %config(noreplace) /var/qmail/control > /var/qmail/doc > /var/qmail/log > /var/qmail/man > %config(noreplace) /var/qmail/queue > /var/qmail/users > /var/qmail/rc > > After searching the net, I tried using %defattr(-,-,-,-) macro at global > level and the %attr(-,-,-) macro per entry in the %files section. But to no > avail. You don't need to use %defattr (defaults to -,root,root), but use %attr for the files/dirs that need a non-root owner/group, e.g. %attr(-,qmails,root) /var/qmail/queue/remote %attr(-,qmailq,root) /var/qmail/queue/remote Hope this helps, -- -- 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
