On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de wrote:

Hi list,

hope I found the right list to ask this question.

I am trying to package software which owns a mounted directory. This mount point is read-only so the chown fails with:

I assume you mean a network mounted or otherwise locked down directory. Why is your packing software trying to package something into a read-only directory?

error: unpacking of archive failed on file /srv/my/dir: cpio: chown failed - Permission denied

Some googling gave me the hint of: # echo "%_netsharedpath /srv/my/dir" >> /etc/rpm/macros

But is there a better way than echoing this on every single host? Like some magic in the SPEC file?

Why aren't you building it with something like "mock" or "koji", that will create use a clean build environment at /var/cache/mock/ without localized modifications? I can understand that your working environment might have "/opt/" or other network mounted directories set up with read-only permissions. But writing to such a directory at build time is begging for difficulty.

Thx Rainer _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

I'd urge you to use "mock" or "koji" and keep your software building out of the working environment of the build server itself. That way lies booby traps.