[openfabrics-ewg] Some observations on the OFED build process

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

Oddly enough, the RPMs that are built from the SRPMs have files owned by
jsquyres/jsquyres as well.  This was a side-item on one of the OFED bugs
about Open MPI.

[shrug] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier (rdreier) 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:02 PM
> To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Some observations on the OFED 
> build process
> 
>     Jeff> Ditto what Roland says.  But, FWIW, I was having problems
>     Jeff> with the SRPMs that were generated when I wasn't root.
>     Jeff> Specifically, even though I have the following in my %files
>     Jeff> list:
> 
>     Jeff> %defattr(-, root, root, -)
> 
>     Jeff> Generated SRPMS would have the userid/group
>     Jeff> "jsquryes"/"jsquyres" in them.
> 
> Hmm, I never noticed that before, but you're right.  But why does the
> ownership within the SRPM matter?  The files within the binary RPMs
> that get built end up with the right ownership of root/root.
> 
> For example, the packages I maintain for Fedora Extras are built from
> SRPMs that contain files owned by rdreier.  But no one has ever
> noticed that as far as I can tell.
> 
>  - R.
>