File ownership in %install

[Brian Reichert]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> The behaviour has changed between rpm 4.9 and 4.10 as I could
> figure out by installing the old versions from opensuse.
> 
> If you want to keep using "install -o .. -g .." to avoid
> naming all files explicitely in %files, you can use sth. like
> 
> find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -not -type d -printf '%%attr(%m,%u,%g,%m) "/%P"\n' 
> >files.list
> 
> %files -f files.list

Are you building your RPM as root? (Not recommended, in my opinion.)

Does the mysql uid/gid exist at the time this RPM is being packaged?

> cu,
> Frank
> 
> 
> Frank Steiner wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >when I started with my own spec files many years ago I always used
> >lines like
> >
> >install -o mysql -g mysql -m 700 blabla $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/...
> >
> >and I'm pretty sure that the file blabla belonged to mysql:mysql
> >after installation of the rpm, although it was not mentioned in
> >%files with any attr. Actually, we always collect the list of
> >files with a find command and use "%files -f files.list", so
> >attr/defattr is never used.
> >
> >With a new RPM I wrote recently I used install lines with owner
> >and group like above, but all files belong to root:root after
> >installation and I couldn't find any way to change that except
> >using attr/defattr in %files.
> >
> >Has this behaviour changed at some time in the past? Or is my
> >remembrance just wrong?
> >
> >cu,
> >Frank
> >
> 
> 
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Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
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