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Bug 461724

Summary: dhcpv6 can only be built by root
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: loic <loic.mahe>
Component: dhcpv6Assignee: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
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Description loic 2008-09-10 07:58:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
dhcpv6 can only be built by root, because the file named configure is already shipped in dhcp-0.10.tgz and is read-only.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.10-24_EL4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build dhcpv6 while not being root
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Actual results:
rpmbuild fails during %build phase with :
autom4te: cannot open configure: Permission denied

Expected results:
rpmbuild should end normally

Additional info:
Comment 1 loic 2008-09-10 08:12:28 UTC 
Oops, I didn't saw bug 185598 and the %_fixperms workaround. Sorry.
I'm not sure that setting %_fixperms is a good idea, since this assumes that all
packages have correct %defattr and %attr settings, which is not obvious. It would be better to correct dhcpv6.spec as the user in 185598 suggested.
Comment 2 Dave Cantrell 2008-09-26 21:59:14 UTC 
I am able to build the dhcpv6 package as a non-root user on RHEL 4.7 just fine.

You have to create a local rpmbuild directory and set that as your rpmbuild topdir, but this is standard practice.

The attached typescript.txt shows what I did.
Comment 3 Dave Cantrell 2008-09-26 21:59:50 UTC 
Created attachment 317840 [details]
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Comment 4 loic 2008-09-29 05:58:47 UTC 
Of course the build environment was fine. As I said, setting %_fixperms solved the problem of the non-writable configure file. Thanks for your answer.