Hi,
I have rebuilt all our source RPMs on CentOS 6 and found they sometimes differ in directory permissions compared to those built on CentOS 3, 4 and 5. The problem is that %defattr overrides %attr on directories. Have a look at this example spec file:
--%<--------------------------------- Summary: foo Name: mini Version: 0.1 Release: 1%{?dist} Group: System Environment/Daemons License: GPLv2+ BuildArch: noarch BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
%description foo
%prep
%install %{__install} -d %{buildroot}/XXX
%files %defattr(0644,root,root,0755) %attr(0730,root,nobody) %dir /XXX --%<---------------------------------
The rpm file list build on EL5 looks like this: drwx-wx--- 2 root nobody 0 Aug 12 14:16 /XXX
The same rebuilt on EL6: drwxr-xr-x 2 root nobody 0 Aug 12 14:19 /XXX
So the EL6 package seems wrong.
Novell has a BZ entry about this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629048
Now my questions 1) did I miss the obvious? 2) am I the only one seeing this? 3) is this fixed in EL6.1 (can anyone test this on RHEL6.1?)
I've looked up RedHat's bugzilla but couldn't find anything related.
Regards, Simon