Re: [rpm-list] rpm changing ownership of /usr

["Jeff Johnson" <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On 8/21/06, Wurdock, Tom <twurdock plato com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I not terribly familiar with building rpms and I have inherited an rpm
> build setup.  My job is to debug and build rpms that someone else
> previously built.
>
> The rpm that I have to rebuild has been changing ownership of /usr from
> root to the user that is supposed to own the rpm's files (we'll call
> that user "build".  Using rpm2cpio, I found that the rpm is creating
> /usr/src/debug.  As a result both /usr and /usr/src are suddenly owned
> by build.
>
> I noticed that in the build process, /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh was
> being called and that seems to deal with /usr/src/debug, but nowhere in
> the spec file do I see ownership of /usr/src/debug being specified.
>
> Any ideas?

You are likely missing
   %files
    %defattr(-,root,root)
to change the default ownership for all files to root.root.

And the package manifest is likely including /usr (which is perhaps
unnecessary).

hth
73 de Jeff