Re: rpm specification & alien
Chris Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Whilst attempting to convert an RPM package to a deb package using
> alien I noticed that alien appears to have problems with preserving
> the ownership of files if the user accounts do not (yet) exist on the
> system on which the conversion is done. For this specific package the
> user accounts are created by scripts just before the installation of
> the files occurs. alien did work correctly when run on a system which
> had the user accounts.
>
> I don't know how hard it would be to enhance alien to handle this.
>
> Do we need to add a note to the specification that requires that the
> RPM packages only rely on the ownership of files being preserved if
> those files are owned by user accounts required to exist by the LSB
> spec?
This would be bad for packages which need special ownership -
e.g. databases and such. I'd rather fix alien.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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