strange behavior with rpmbuild -ts

Neil Horman nhorman at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 19:01:30 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:50:00PM -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> 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now out of date?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
> 
> -- 
> John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
> 
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Copy that, thank you John.
Neil

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