Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jorge Luis Arzola <arzolacub@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

Moreover... the bug in the package most be the following: the packager
forgot to use the %defattr directive in the %files section of the spec
file used to build the package, so persmissions on the files were set
acordingly, and not to root, as the %deffattr directive should have
done. As said here before, it's just a small bug in the rpm package,
as long a any  user called kosta exist in the system...But hey, things
get worse if  by chance a user called kosta does exist in the
system...In that case, for example, user kosta(and *NOT root) will own
in the system **every file within the rpm pkg, as well as every folder
in their path...That means, for ejemplo, that if  the package contains
files that will go into sensible dirs like /etc, /usr etc, all of them
will belong to user kosta, which is ugly. ;-)
In fact, even official suse packages(which come with the distro) have
had this *bug in the past, as the packager forgets the mentioned
directive. And I myself have found a beagle(not a suse one) package
with this error the other  day.

cheers

jorge

On 11/6/05, ajtiM <ajtim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > 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
>
> Thank you very much to everyone for explanation :)
>
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