[Rpm-maint] RPM supports variable group name ?

[Fernando Nasser]

Sangeeta Varma wrote:
> 
> Olivier,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> How is that the same though ?
> I want to query the administrator installing the RPM (at install time) 
> as to which group to set for the binary and then use that to set the 
> group of the binary.
> 
> Doesn't this ::
>  > %attr(755, user, group) /a/file
> 
> imply that "group" is a known entity at build time ?
> 
> -Sangeeta
> 

Suggestion, let the RPM work as usual.

The sys admin creates a group alias with the RPM group name to the group 
he wants on that system

With the proper switches, groupadd will only create a group if the group 
does not yet exist.



> 
> Olivier Thauvin wrote:
>> 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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