Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

ajtiM wrote:
> I installed package abcde with Synaptic and i got warnings::
> While installing package abcde-2.3.3-0.pm.0:
> warning: user kosta does not exist - using root
...
> What is wrong, please?

Nothing bad.
RPM packages include a list of files that are installed (which is,
obviously, the primary goal of RPM packages ;)).

It also stores information about access rights, owner user and owner
group. It's just a slight bug in the package, as the files have been
stored as belonging to a user named "kosta" (who is most probably the
person who made the package ;)). When installing the package, RPM also
applies a "chown kosta" on the files, notices there's no user named
"kosta" on your system and falls back to chown'ing them to root.
It just gives you a warning that it did so.

Nothing bad, will work just fine, but a small bug in the package.

Please file a bug report to Packman => packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and it will be fixed.

cheers
- --
  -o) Pascal Bleser     http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
  /\\ <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>       <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFDbnhvr3NMWliFcXcRAgW/AKCo+1ie9ZTISzajeaBzekxzEmxB/wCfa7R9
HDtu00FXqwu1WVeCI7Stoto=
=iueR
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----