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Re: rpm-build issue
- From: Matt Rose <mrose at n-able dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:14:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: rpm-build issue
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Ahh, interesting, I'll have to break that again and see if it needs a
valid username. Thanks for the idea!
Matt
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 15:08 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-08-07 15:01, Matt Rose wrote:
> > I've noticed that the newer version of the rpm-build package (4.11-1)
> > has a really severe bug in that it ignores the %defattr flag in the %
> > files section of .spec files
>
> Note that a default %defattr is provided since rpm-4.4, and therefore
> most uses of it are considered obsolete in Fedora:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/77
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#File_Permissions
>
> That being said, I haven't tried this on Cygwin. But do you actually
> have a root user (e.g. by renaming Administrator in /etc/passwd)?
>
>
> Yaakov
>
>
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