Re: How to preseve the file attributes on the target?

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

On 11/22/06, Kamal Hussain <kamalh lucent com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am trying to map SVR4 packages to RPM and having problems in mapping
> some of the attributes.
>
> In SVR4 package, you can specify "?" for mode, owner and group which
> means these attributes will be left unchanged if they already exist on
> the target. I am not able to find an equivalent to specify attributes in
> RPM. Is there any way we can tell an RPM package to honor the file
> attributes on the target and not to change it?

There's no direct mapping, rpm is pickier than pkgadd, all files in package
payloads must have a defined mode/owner/group when installing.

One can disable verification of permission/owner/group using %verify
attributes however.

It would not be hard to add the functionality, I'm not sure what would
be gained,
except for feature parity with pkgadd.

73 de Jeff