From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: In the course of building (not installing) the ncpfs-2.2.0.18-6 package, a file is written to the /sbin directory. Worse, it is a dangling symlink that overwrites a valid symlink. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.On a RedHat v7.3 system run this command: rpm --rebuild ncpfs-2.2.0.18-6.src.rpm 2. When the build is complete you will see a new file in /sbin. I recommend sort the directory listing by date. Actual Results: After the build is complete, this file is observed in /sbin: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 May 12 06:09 mount.ncp -> /var/tmp/ncpfs-2.2.0.18-root/usr/bin/ncpmount Expected Results: No process should write to /sbin during the build of a SRPM package. Additional info: The ncpfs-2.2.0.18-6.src.rpm package was gotten from the standard RH v7.3 distribution CD.
The build of this packages also writes to /usr/lib. Specifically, the file "libncp.a" is written to this directory in the course of the build.
Fixed in release 9 or newer rpms. Thanks, Florian La Roche