[Rpm-maint] Do not abort if chown/chmod fails but the file is already correct

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Tue May 17 12:51:47 UTC 2011


On 05/16/2011 07:13 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>
> This small patch makes rpm not abort the installation if chown()/chmod()
> faild but the files already have the correct ownership/mode.
> It also allows a failed mtime update on directories.
>
> IIRC the use case was some NFS mounted directory.

Nice, thanks! There's been a ticket about this (yes, NFS and similar 
mounts) at rpm.org and also another somewhere in RH bugzilla. Applied...

	- Panu -


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