rpm and flie permission

[Fraser Campbell]

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 09:19, Martin Duclos wrote:
> Hi all,
> I made an rpm with a tar archive which holds the contents of my hard drive.
> Then I create the rpm with the  tar, the file permissions are kept after
> the whole tar archive has been extracted to the BUILD directory. Then rpm
> takes the files in that directory and creates a cpio archive. When I
> extract that cpio from the rpm, I noticed some files have different
> permissions than what they had in the original archive. Namely, files in
> the /etc/ssh/. Can anyone explain why?

Look at the files section of your rpm spec, have you used the defattr macro?

    %files
    %defattr(-,root,root)

IIRC rpm preserves permissions other than that.

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