A best-practice question

[Panu Matilainen]

On 11/26/2012 08:55 AM, Eran Ben Natan wrote:
> Hello,
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>  From your experience, is it better to set files owner and mode in the
> install part, using the install command, or in the files part with
> %attr?

Like Valery already pointed out, rpmbuild should never ever be executed 
as root, which means you simply cannot set file ownership during 
%install. File ownership should always be set in %files with %defattr/%attr.

Setting the file mode is up to you. Often its suffieciently taken care 
of with by "make install" during %install so that only eg 
"%defattr(root,root,-)" is needed, and if further tweaking is needed it 
can be done from either %install or %files via %defattr/%attr.

	- Panu -