Hi All, I am trying to unpack RPM, which has all files with root:root permissions. Unpacking is done in the environment, where user does not have root permissions. I am using something like this:
rpm2cpio /Users/david/tmp/RPMS/gcc+4.6.1.rpm | cpio -idmvu --insecure -R david:staff Important flags: --insecure # Install into location, which is pointed by symlink -u # Overwrite destination files is such already exists -R david:staff # Change file permissions to david:staff as there is no access to root:root If I run this under "david" user it will fail at the end [1]. If I run it as root user, everything is okay. While on the Linux machines I do not have any problems unpacking such RPMS (holds root:root files) and making cpio to set my permissions on the files, I can't do that on Mac OS X. Some of the executables are zero-size files [2]. Any suggestions how to unpack RPM, which holds root:root permission files, using non-root user would be very welcomed. Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas! David [1] ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/gfortran ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gfortran ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gfortran: Can't create 'opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gfortran' ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/gcc ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc-4.6.1 ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc-4.6.1: Can't create 'opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc-4.6.1' ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/c++ ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/g++ ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-c++ ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-g++ ./opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-g++: Can't create 'opt/gcc/4.6.1/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-g++' [2] drwxr-xr-x 18 david staff 612 Grd 25 00:36 . drwxr-xr-x 8 david staff 272 Grd 25 00:36 .. -r-xr-xr-x 4 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 c++ lrwxr-xr-x 1 david staff 3 Grd 25 00:36 cc -> gcc -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 9504 Grd 25 00:36 cloog -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 431392 Grd 25 00:36 cpp -r-xr-xr-x 4 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 g++ -r-xr-xr-x 3 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 gcc -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 51680 Grd 25 00:36 gcov -r-xr-xr-x 2 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 gfortran -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 119464 Grd 25 00:36 ppl-config -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 91472 Grd 25 00:36 ppl_lcdd -r-xr-xr-x 1 david staff 73448 Grd 25 00:36 ppl_pips -r-xr-xr-x 4 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-c++ -r-xr-xr-x 4 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-g++ -r-xr-xr-x 3 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc -r-xr-xr-x 3 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc-4.6.1 -r-xr-xr-x 2 david staff 0 Grd 25 00:36 x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-gfortran______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
