Re: Trying to change installed files permissions during %post

[Nigel Metheringham <nigel metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On 22 Jan 2007, at 13:51, Erez Zilber wrote:
> In my spec file, in the %post section, I'm trying to change the
> permissions of some of the files that the rpm installs:
>
> %post
> chmod +x /sbin/my_file

Why would you want to do something like that?  If you did manage to  
do it you
would then have an installed rpm which would fail to verify.

Why not set the permissions of the installed files correctly in the
%files section using the %attr directives - see

  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch09s05.html

alternatively make sure the file is executable within the install
section and this should be carried across (other than overrides done
by %attr or %defattr) when the files are packaged.

	Nigel.
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