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Do not set owner/group on installation/unpacking of SRPM

Registered by Jeff Johnson on 2010-09-06

     Change: no-owner-group-on-srpm-install
     Purpose: Do not set owner/group on installation/unpacking of SRPM
     Reason: In Mandriva it is not wished that file owner/group are
                     set on files during installation of _source_ RPMs.
                     Instead, the current run-time owner/group should
                     be used, because most of the time the owner/group
                     in the source RPM (which is the owner/group of the
                     files as staying on the package author system) is
                     not existing on the target system anyway.

Blueprint information

Status:: Complete

Approver:: Jeff Johnson

Priority:: Medium

Drafter:: None

Direction:: Approved

Assignee:: Matthew Dawkins

Definition:: Approved

Series goal:: Accepted for 5.4

Implementation:: Implemented

Milestone target:: 5.4.9

Started by: Jeff Johnson on 2012-01-13

Completed by: Jeff Johnson on 2012-05-15

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This needs to be merged into RPM code: the

ancient error message warning when user/group

of the packager cannot be looked up has always been feeble.

Whatever rpm.org has done should be checked: I doubt anyone

cares about the warning message.

DS: I find Mandriva's behavior to be more logical and it will be definitely used in ROSA. Surely, this is not a big issue, but if this is a divergence between upstream and ROSA/MDV, then I'd vote for merging MDV patch to upstream.

DONE:
MD 2012_05_07: has been merged into mainline code.

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