[Fedora-packaging] rpmlint non-standard-[ug]id, non-standard-dir-perm

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Sep 16 19:44:46 UTC 2008


I'm packaging cricket and rpmlint complains:

cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/config/Defaults cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/config/Defaults apache
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/config cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/config apache
cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /etc/cricket/config 0771
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket apache
cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /etc/cricket 0771
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl apache
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/log/cricket cricket
cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /var/log/cricket 0775
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /etc/cricket/subtree-sets cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /etc/cricket/subtree-sets apache
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-uid /var/cache/cricket apache
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/cache/cricket cricket
cricket.noarch: W: non-standard-gid /var/lib/cricket cricket
cricket.noarch: E: non-standard-dir-perm /var/lib/cricket 0775

What is the rationale for these warnings and errors, and why should 
the package avoid using them?




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