Bug 4522 - chgrp fails building packages with symlinks
Summary: chgrp fails building packages with symlinks
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-08-14 18:47 UTC by Gordon Messmer
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-14 19:01:13 UTC

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Description Gordon Messmer 1999-08-14 18:47:18 UTC 
When attempting to build a package whose source contains
symlinks, chgrp returns -1.

The solution appears to be changing the macro:
%_fixgroup    		[ `%{__id} -u` = '0' ] && %{__chgrp} -Rf
root
to;
%_fixgroup    		[ `%{__id} -u` = '0' ] && %{__chgrp} -Rhf
root
in /usr/lib/rpm/macros
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-14 19:01:59 UTC 
Fixed in (as yet unreleased) rpm-3.0.3. Thanks for the patch.
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