Re: Default file attributes

[Andrey Tarassov <ta sot com>]

Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:53:28PM +0300, Andrey Tarassov wrote:
>
> > Is it anyhow possible to configure RPM so that it would specify the
> > default file attrubutes automatically (i.e. owner, group, permissions)?
> > Normally one would use %defattr in the spec-file, but what I want to do is
> > to avoid usage of this macro in the spec.
>
>
> Why? Defattr *is* the way you do that!

Not exactly. I am using rpm under the cygwin environment for building 
linux packages. Under cygwin there are no root users and groups and 
permissions are set in windows way.

Normally I would use %defattr, but I am a developer. However there will 
be people using the tool who are not that efficient in all RPM tricks.

Thanks,

Andrey

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