strange behavior with rpmbuild -ts

John Dennis jdennis at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 18:50:00 UTC 2008


Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey all-
> 	I ran into a strange problem with rpmbuild on fedora 8 recently, and
> wanted to know if anyone knew about it.  I recently started a probject for a
> fuse filesystem (http://feodrahosted.org/s3fs).  I build my releases with a spec
> file in the tarball, so that I can use rpmbuild -ts to generate a src.rpm
> directly from said release.  It works great, but every time I do this,
> regardless of what permissions I have on the spec file in the tarball, rpmbuild
> changes just the spec file permissions to be 0600.  I wouldn't have noticed, if
> it were not for an rpmlint warning complaining of strange permissions on the
> spec file.
> 
> 	So is this something anyone else has seen?  Is it a bug in rpmbuild?  Or
> that done intentionally for some reason there, and if so, is the rpmlint check
> now out of date?

This is a known issue, I filed this bug last August.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253648

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John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>




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