Bug 3699

Summary:	SRPM can't be rebuilt as non-root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	kenneth_porter
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	enrico.scholz
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	ftp://ftp.kempf.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/sendmail-8.9.3-10.src.rpm
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Last Closed:	1999-08-31 16:46:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Description kenneth_porter 1999-06-24 07:47:32 UTC

The install phase of the build executes the
command "make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
install -C src/$OBJDIR". This attempts to
set owner and group on a file in the
RPM_BUILD_ROOT, which is not permitted for
an ordinary user. Setting owner and group
should be done by an %attr directive in the
files list.

I would prefer to build SRPMS without root
privilege, as I don't want to kill my
production system with a bug in a spec file.

I would suggest that all Red Hat SRPMS be
test-built by a lowly user to verify that
root privilige is not needed.

Comment 1 kenneth_porter 1999-06-29 02:26:59 UTC

This bug was originally submitted with the
component set to "sendmail", as the
sendmail-8.9.3-10.src.rpm package was the one where
the problem was observed.This bug was originally submitted with the
component set to "sendmail", as the
sendmail-8.9.3-10.src.rpm package was the one where
the problem was observed.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 16:46:59 UTC

fixed in sendmail-8.9.3-13, in the next Raw Hide release.