strange behavior with rpmbuild -ts

[Neil Horman]

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now out of date?

Thanks & Regards
Neil

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