Re: "Error: Bad owner/group" while rebuilding src rpm

[Eli Carter <eli carter inet com>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i *know* this has come up before, and i've already skimmed what google
> found for me.
>
>   i have a cross-compile toolchain that i'm trying to use to cross compile
> a src rpm.  this means that i have a pre-built "rpmbuild" executable that
> i don't have the source for at the moment, so i'm kind of limited in that
> respect.
>
>   as part of the rebuild process, the first step listed in the docs is to just
> do a "prep" step, which sadly fails immediately on trying to unload the 
> bzipped tarball.
>
>   i've seen, via google, that the "Error: Bad owner/group" message refers
> to the owner/group of the files within the tarball.

Hmm.... I didn't think that was a fatal error.  Did all the files get 
unpacked?

Eli
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