Re: [pcp] question on rpm builds

[Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/18/2016 03:46 PM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > In the process of debugging something else, I noticed this coming out of the
> > rpm builds ...
> >
> >      Explicit %attr() mode not applicaple to symlink:
> >      
> > /home/kenj/src/pcp/pcp-3.11.1/BUILDROOT/pcp-3.11.1-8.x86_64/usr/lib64/libpcp.so
> >
> > and similar lines that appear to be for every symlink in the PCP packages.
> >
> > Is this expected?
> Yeah, its been generating that warning for years.  Its most likely from:
> $1 == "l" { print "%attr(0777,root,root)", $3 >> f }'
> ... in pcp.spec.in?  It may have once been accepted by an old version of
> rpm/rpmbuild.
>
> > Is it something to worry about / fix?
> Nope, but we could fix if its bothering.  Theres also the make -j1 warning,
> and a handful of rpm "warning: File listed twice" warnings we could also go
> fix - they just never seem to percolate up the to-do list here.

yep it's benign .. ever since we did the original rpm packaging.
The particular issue you've reported is because symlinks don't
have modes, so specifying one with the %attr generates a warning.

Cheers