Bug 4522 – chgrp fails building packages with symlinks

Bug 4522 - chgrp fails building packages with symlinks

Summary:	chgrp fails building packages with symlinks

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-08-14 14:47 EDT by Gordon Messmer
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-14 15:01:13 EDT
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Description Gordon Messmer 1999-08-14 14:47:18 EDT

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 15:01:59 EDT

Fixed in (as yet unreleased) rpm-3.0.3. Thanks for the patch.

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