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uucp-1.06.1-25 release. This release (actually -24, -25 is autorebuild) introduced changes related to building as non-root. Those changes are plain wrong. From changelog: * Fri Jun 2 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> - FHS packaging. - map perms/owners into %%files to build as non-root. Ok, Jeff added `owner=$(id -un)' option to make for both make all and make install (the first was wrong -- uucp expect their files owned by building user, not uucp as it should after this change). But Makefile attempts to do chown ${owner}.${owner} (i.e. changing the group also), so if building user have no corresponding "user group" (as in my case), chown will fail in the same way as without this addition parameter. I will not attach a patch (it is trivial), but suggest removing back owner= parameter and adding this two lines to .spec after configure or at the end of %prep (in latter case Makefile should be changed to Makefile.in): sed 's|chown |echo chown |' Makefile > Makefile.tmp mv -f Makefile.tmp Makefile This will just strip away chown calls. (Just adding a comment before chown will not cure the problem but will cause syntax errors). The proper way to this is to replace chown (and chmod etc) with $CHOWN (and $CHMOD etc) variables in Makefile(.in) and adding parameter CHOWN=: to make command line...
Fixed by building with owner=uucp but installing with owner=$(id -u) and insuring that %files has the correct owners. Package is uucp-1.06.1-26.
Hm... :) Here it is, at my system: mjt$ id uid=101(mjt) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),56(bckp),60(dba),101(ekisadm) mjt$ getent group mjt mjt$ _ there is no such group named `mjt', while my uid *is* mjt. Yes, by default redhat creates personal group for each user, but I don't like this policy. With this, uucp install will again fali, since it will try to chown mjt.mjt FILE, with chown: mjt:mjt: invalid group error message. I again recommend those two lines that already has been recommended... :)
understood. in addition to doing a owner=$(id -un), we'll create a group=$(id -gn) and have the chowns use the new shell variable for the group and not $(owner)