Re: preserving file attributes from make install in rpm spec file

On Dec 13, 2007 11:03 AM, Bob Beers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2007 10:35 AM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
>
> > What you miss is %attr markers in the %files manifest.
> >
> > Add explicit
> >    %attr(mode,user,group)
> > (substituting the actual values for "mode", "user", "group" above)
> > for paths listed in the %files manifest.
> >
> > There is also %defattr, and there's a certain art to expressing
> >  %attr so that itscopes correctly across glob patterns, but rpm
> > packaging easily separates the actual {mode,user,group} used
> > during build from the same tuple used during install.
> >
>
> Thank you Jeff and Matthew for the rapid responses!
>
> Do I understand correctlythat I can
>  omit the make install line in %install section
>  if I add appropriate %attr lines in the %file section?
>

You can't omit "make install" (and adding the DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
is perfectly sane if that is what you are doing).

Think of %{buildroot} as a staging area for package contents. However
you populate, with cp, or install or ... any other means. But you need to
populate the %{buildroot} with the contents that you want in packages.

(Note: yes I'm perfectly aware that one can package w/o BuildRoot:, but
let's not go there please.)



>
> Something like this?
>
> %files
> %attr(755,root,root)
> /usr/local/bin/file01
> %attr(644,root,root)
> /usr/local/bin/file02
> %attr(750,root,wheel)
> /usr/local/bin/file03
> %attr(750,root,aaa)
> /usr/local/bin/file04
> %attr(750,root,bbb)
> /usr/local/bin/file05
>

The scoping is up to next newline, so make sure the %attr is
on the same line as the path or pattern.

73 de Jeff

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