[Rpm-maint] RPM supports variable group name ?

Olivier Thauvin nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org
Wed Feb 28 20:53:13 UTC 2007


Le Wednesday 28 February 2007, Sangeeta Varma a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have an urgent requirement to be able to deliver a binary in an RPM
> with an unknown group name, at the rpm build time.  The Group name will
> be known only at install time.

Isn't it what wo do in rpm since rpm 4, maybe rpm 3 ?

%attr(755, user, group) /a/file

in pre, something that more or less does: 
adduser user -g group ...

Iirc, RH/fedora does more or less the same, and probaly other distros.
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