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Re: rpm-build issue


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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