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Silicon Graphics User Group RPM Software Environment
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warning: user dan does not exist - using root #187

Closed oweidner closed 2 years ago

oweidner commented 2 years ago

When I follow the instructions in Readme.md to rebuild an RPM from source, I get this warning:

[oweidner@indy SPECS]% rpm -ivh ../SRPMS/mpg123-1.25.10-2.sgug.src.rpm
Updating / installing...
   1:mpg123-1.25.10-2.sgug            warning: user dan does not exist - using root
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warning: user dan does not exist - using root
warning: user dan does not exist - using root
unxmaal commented 2 years ago

It's not a problem, it just means that when the source package was created, the files were owned by the user 'dan' on that machine. When RPM installs a package it tries to set the same owner, group, and permissions, and falls back to root when the owner or group are not found.

oweidner commented 2 years ago

Ok, that makes sense. Closing this issue.