Bug 629048

Summary:	rpm: %defattr overrides %attr if directory default permission given
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Ruediger Oertel <ro>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Michael Schröder <mls>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	n3npq
Version:	Final
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Description Ruediger Oertel 2010-08-06 10:23:51 UTC

on 11.3 and factory rpm will override individially specified permissions
for directories if %defattr is present with 4 parameters (the last one denoting
the default direcory permissions).

# cat /usr/src/packages/SPECS/mini.spec 
Name:           mini
License:        GPL
Version:        1
Release:        0
Summary:        foo
%description
foo
%prep
%build
%install
mkdir -m 777 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/x
%files
%defattr(0644,root,root,0755)
%dir %attr(0777,root,root) /x
# rpm -qplv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/mini-1-0.x86_64.rpm 
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                        0 Aug  6 12:22 /x

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2010-09-11 02:50:06 UTC

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/633729

Comment 2 Michael Schröder 2011-11-21 17:01:14 UTC

I think this was fixed some time ago.