Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: r3905 - trunk/dist-tools/shipper

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:

> Back when I ran Red Hat (around the same time I last programmed Berkeley 
> DB :-), root was required for creating rpms so that the ownerships and 
> permissions of the installed files would turn out right.  Eric's "go root 
> to make the rpm" release procedure is a remnant of that era, even though 
> things have changed since then.

Non-issue at least for RPM V3:

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
bin/fetchmail
bin/fetchmailconf
...

I've committed a fix to specgen.sh that enables overrides for user,
name, domain and makes sure that date runs with C locale rather than
what I have configured - German month/week day names kill RPM in
%changelog.

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Matthias Andree

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