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Bug 1131270

Summary: Unable to Strip Perl Binaries while building RPM: Permission Denied
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: David E. Wheeler <david>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.5CC: bugs.michael, ffesti, kevin, pmatilai, twoerner
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Last Closed: 2014-12-15 13:51:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Description David E. Wheeler 2014-08-18 20:34:38 UTC
Description of problem:

Similar to #112429, I get 56 of these warnings while trying to build a Perl 5.20 RPM on CentOS 6.5:

    /usr/bin/strip: unable to copy file '/home/dwheeler/rpm-perl/BUILDROOT/perl520-5.20.0-1.1408388526.x86_64/usr/local/perl520/lib/5.20.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so'; reason: Permission denied

The files in question have no +w on them, so the inability to strip understandable. I'm able to make those warnings go away if I apply tho patch to brp-strip-comment-note:

--- brp-strip-comment-note	2014-08-18 13:33:02.069699117 -0700
+++ brp-strip-comment-note	2014-08-18 12:42:37.574233023 -0700
@@ -19,5 +19,11 @@
 		grep ALLOC >/dev/null; then
 		note=
 	fi
-	$STRIP -R .comment $note "$f" || :
+    if test -w "$f"; then
+	    $STRIP -R .comment $note "$f" || :
+    else
+        chmod u+w "$f"
+	    $STRIP -R .comment $note "$f" || :
+        chmod u-w "$f"
+    fi
 done

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

CentOS 6.5.

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2014-08-18 21:37:24 UTC
> Version: Rawhide

> CentOS 6.5

Please clarify. Rawhide or CentOS 6.5?


> brp-strip-comment-note

That's from package "rpm-build", so if you suggest patching that one, it would be a bug in RHEL 6.5. Bugzilla component "rpm" as in bug 112429 you've mentioned.

Comment 2 David E. Wheeler 2014-08-18 21:43:24 UTC
(In reply to Michael Schwendt from comment #1)
> > Version: Rawhide
> 
> > CentOS 6.5
> 
> Please clarify. Rawhide or CentOS 6.5?

CentOS 6.5. Sorry had not noticed the Rawhide selection.

> > brp-strip-comment-note
> 
> That's from package "rpm-build", so if you suggest patching that one, it
> would be a bug in RHEL 6.5. Bugzilla component "rpm" as in bug 112429 you've
> mentioned.

Thanks, fixed.

Comment 4 Florian Festi 2014-12-15 13:51:42 UTC
Sorry. It is not the task of the brp-strip script to work around permission issues. Either disable stripping or make sure these files have the right permissions.

Note, that it is not necessary for the files to have the proper permissions on disk during build. Permissions within the package should be declared in the %files section.