Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75602
rpmbuild improperly packages .src.rpm files built as a user
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021006 Description of problem: building an rpm as a non-root user causes the files in the .src.rpm file to be owned by that user in the cpio archive. This results in rpms which likely cannot be rebuilt with --rebuild as the original building user may not exist on the second build system. This is a fatal error when building an rpm apparently. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build an rpm as a non-root user 2. rpm2cpio foo.src.rpm |cpio --list --verbose Actual Results: files in the .src.rpm are owned by the building user Expected Results: files in the .src.rpm should be owned by root Additional info:
You need %files %defattr(-,root,root) (at the minimum) in your spec file manifests.
no no no.. not the binary rpm, the SOURCE rpm contains files which are improperly owned... ---- cut here ---- minimal specfile: Name: testme Version: 0 Release: 0 Summary: Test RPM License: GPL Group: Test BuildRoot: %_tmppath/%name-%version-root %description test %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT && mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/testme %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %files %defattr (-,root,root) /testme ---- cut here ---- blue-smoke% rpmbuild -ba testme.spec ... rpm build ... blue-smoke% rpm -qlvp /devel/rpm/SRPMS/testme-0-0.src.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 gbrittongbritton 359 Oct 10 13:23 testme.spec blue-smoke% rpm -qlvp /devel/rpm/RPMS/i386/testme-0-0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 13:23 /testme files in the .src.rpm file are owned by the build user. If the file is then transported to another machine without that user, rpmbuild --rebuild will complain about the ownership of the files in the source rpm.
There's a warning, but the right thing happens, at least when installing as non-root. root may need to do chown root.root /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/* There's no way to precompute the ownership of files in src.rpm's for all possible cases.