On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:41, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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
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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@links2linux.de and it will be fixed.
cheers
Thank you very much to everyone for explanation :)