Bug 65355

Summary:	[4.2]: default to %defattr(-,root,root)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	R P Herrold <herrold>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	petersen
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Bug Blocks:	67218

Description R P Herrold 2002-05-22 17:33:00 UTC

Per mailing list:



Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:21:18 -0400

From: Jeff Johnson <jbj>

Reply-To: rpm-list

To: rpm-list

Subject: [rh-rpm] Re: Making rpm default to %defattr(-,root,root)?



On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:55:54PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> Call me lazy (which I am :) but I think it'd be nice if rpm defaulted to 

> %defattr(-,root,root) in the %files section. At least I tend to forget to 

> specify that especially in subpackages (like -devel) which then leads to 

> "user foo not existing" warnings when installing the package. Afterall 

> most packages use that anyway, specifying another user in there is 

more a 

> special case than having the files owned by root.

> 



Personally, I think that making %defattr(-,root,root) the default behavior

is long overdue. Ditto



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From mailing list

-- Russ Herrold

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-25 12:26:32 UTC

This ain't gonna happen for rpm-4.1, deferred
to rpm-4.2.

Comment 2 R P Herrold 2003-04-26 04:12:53 UTC

... or perhaps rpm-4.3 ?  <smile>

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2003-10-27 02:52:56 UTC

I vote for this too!

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2004-12-13 12:47:45 UTC

This is in rpm-4.4. iirc.