% rpm --rebuild --clean --rmsource sendmail-8.9.3-16.src.rpm ... + strip /var/tmp/sendmail-root/usr/bin/makemap /var/tmp/sendmail-root/usr/bin/rmail strip: /var/tmp/sendmail-root/usr/bin/makemap: simple_copy: Permission denied % env LANG= ls -l /var/tmp/sendmail-root/usr/bin/makemap -r-xr-xr-x 2 nogin nogin 16004 Jan 4 18:33 /var/tmp/sendmail-root/usr/bin/makemap If I try to rebuild sendmail-8.9.3-15.src.rpm (RH 6.1), I get the same problem. I am trying to rebuild sendmail RPMs on RH 5.2 with all updates installed.
Should be fixed in -18 build, in next Raw Hide release.