Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps
> > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group,
> > > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all
> > > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. Whereas
> > > if you had installed the file as an rpm the files would all be correctly
> > > owned.
> >
> > This is why alien prints warning messages if you run it as a non-root
> > user. If you want owners to be preserved, use root or fakeroot.
>
> Negative. The above is true even if you run alien as root.
>
> You are probably not seeing it before because many rpms are build as
> root and so the rpm2cpio shows the file as root. But since many build
> rpms as a non-root user most contributed rpms such as the ones that I
> build are built by a non-root user and the cpio files inside are not
> root owned.
That sounds mostly like a bug in the .rpm packages to me. Avoiding this
is exactly why all Debian packages are built with either real root or
fakeroot; in fact, I think it's why fakeroot was written in the first
place.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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