Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: allow clamping username and permissions for source RPMs (Issue #2604)

2023-09-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
Yes, the only real change needed here is the stored user/group. I doubt it *ever* made sense, really -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2604#issuecomment-1720756475 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: allow clamping username and permissions for source RPMs (Issue #2604)

2023-09-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> it would be useful to clamp the ownership of the files to root:root--though > this will necessitate ensuring that the applications which work with RPM > input/output respect this clamping and change the permissions if a user > extracts or installs it. (Namely, we don't want a user to install

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: allow clamping username and permissions for source RPMs (Issue #2604)

2023-09-14 Thread Panu Matilainen
Indeed, storing the local user/group into src.rpm makes no sense whatsoever. It's an anachronism from the ancient days before Buildroot was a thing that has somehow survived all the way up to this date. We've made some effort to swipe the symptoms under the carpet (ie avoid pointless warnings