Changing the %Setup Macro

[devzero2000]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Eric Aiken <eric.aiken at hcl.in> wrote:

>  I realize it is intentional that the %setup macro extracts files and then
> chown/chmod's the extracted files.  Is there a way around this?
>
> I need to create an rpm of files (no compile, make install,etc).  There are
> a large number of files with very disparate owner/group/perms.
>
> Creating a bunch of %file statements to create external file lists with
> sed's  is not my preference.  If I could only:
>
> tar --atime-preserve --preserve-permissions --same-owner   file.tar
>
> that would quick and easy.
>
> Could I create a macro for chown/chmod to point to echo or some other
> harmless command within the spec  file and trick rpmbuild?
>
When i package proprietary appl i execute this script (
http://devzero2000.pastebin.com/f16cf0404) for filling the manifest on every
target package directory - but it is simple to change it for use with a file
list - and in the %file section use

%file -f manifest.list.

This is imho preferable because your solution and the trick that you want
work only if you build the package as the root user - a normal user can't in
%install set file/dir ownership to other user and this in general is
required by the package. And using the root user for build is no good. But
IMHO.

hth




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