Re: preserving file attributes from make install in rpm spec file

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:20:45AM -0500, Bob Beers wrote:
> Obviously I'm overlooking something.  I am sure this is not that unusual.
> BTW, and I know I should not do it, if I build the rpm as root,
>  the permissions are fine, but all files are root:root.

The solution is to not set the permissions (for permissions out of the
ordinary) in the Makefile but to do so in the %files section of the
specfile.

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