Re: %attr | Doubt

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:04:35PM +0530, Lis Maria wrote:

> I have a doubt regarding the %attr in the %file section of the spec file. As
> per the documents, if we give %attr(-,root,root) and some file name, it
> should make root as the owner of that file after installing right?

Right.

> So, i want to make a user as the owner of some file
> 
> i.e        %attr(-,lis,lis) sample.txt
> 
> But when i install the rpm, i see root as the owner, and till now what i
> have been doing is to manually go and change the owner. I am installing the
> rpm as user ' lis' only (through sudo).

If user "lis" exists when installing the rpm, or if you create user "lis"
in the "%pre" script, this should work, I never had problems with it.

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