This is my first try at building rpms. I am using Centos5.

I am trying to create an rpm for some bash scripts
and I want to give different group ids to different
scripts as a method to control which users can use
which scripts. (Is there a better way?)

Script permissions and ownership should be a combination of
0755 root:root
0750 root:foo
0750 root:bar
0750 rootther

I *am* able to build an rpm and it looks good in the
/var/tmp/blah-0.5/ directory, but after installing
on the target system, every script is root:root.
The foo, bar, and other groups exist on both the
build system and the target system.

This (and more, of course) is in my spec file:

Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}2-%{version}-%{release}-build

%prep
%setup -q

%build
make all

%install
make DESTDIR=%buildroot/ install

The make install is where the permissions and ownership
are set using ${INSTALL} ...

Why does it not show up right after 'rpm -i blah-blah'?

Also, how can I get around building this rpm as root,
since my 'make install' needs root privileges?

Thanks for any help.

Install fedora-rpmdevtools and redhat-rpm-config rpms and you can build the rpms from your home directory. Even using rpmbuild to build a tar file with a spec file in it will automatically be built in your home directory. Read up on the two to configure your home directory to have a similar directory structure as in /usr/src/redhat. If I remember you run the command ' fedora-buildrpmtree ' to make ~/rpmbuild in your home directory.

Brian

I can already build rpms in my home directory, the problem
arises due to the specific file group ids I'm trying to
set. Running rpmbuild as non-root fails during the
make DESTDIR=%buildroot/ install phase.

Never had any problems running rpmbuild as a user. Not sure what to do from here.

Brian