Need help in maintaining permissions in RPM

[Ramin Rad]

If the tar file is the file that you are installing, then just use the 
"%attr" directive under "%files". 
(http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html)

If you are extracting the tar file in your %pre or %post scripts, use 
the '-p' option to tar to preserve the mode for the files in the tar 
image. (See the man pages for tar)

Hope this helps.

-ramin


On 7/1/2011 12:10 PM, James R Maxwell wrote:
>
> I have a tar file that contains certain permissions, ownerships and 
> groups.
>
> My question is how do I specify in the Spec file that I want to 
> maintain the same permissions, ownerships and groups of my tarfile 
> when the RPM is installed.
>
> I have the following line in my spec file;
>
> %defattr (-,root,root,-)
>
> However my tarfile contains files and directories of different 
> permissions for directories/files and ownership/groups.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
>
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