[NOT SOLVED] - warning: group root- does not exist - using root

[warron.french]

I ran into this problem just recently with the RPM I was building (the 2 or 3 prior posts were about):

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warning: group root- does not exist - using root

Doing some Googling (I don't have any GoogleFu) several links suggest that the solution is to create the account. Why would I want to create an account called "root-" it is too close to 'root' for my taste?

I know that it is just a warning; however, I would like to suppress it during the RPM's installation in conjunction with the use of a puppet class we use here.

What is causing this warning? It is not explicitly something being done inside my SPEC file.
How do I suppress this warning?

Both are equally important to me to understand this issue.
Thank you,

[TrevorH]

You only get those messages when installing an SRPM. And it's from the tar that's used to untar the source tarballs. You don't get that warning when installing the output from rpmbuild/mock as those are binary rpms not SRPMs.

[warron.french]

You only get those messages when installing an SRPM. And it's from the tar that's used to untar the source tarballs. You don't get that warning when installing the output from rpmbuild/mock as those are binary rpms not SRPMs.

I am installing my own built binary RPM.

But it looks like you are suggesting to look into the Source0: and Source1: tarballs; which I did before this post, and I found nothing owned by root-.
There are files, and a crap-ton of them, by the developer of the original Source0: archived files.

I do not:
1. create a user:group pair, then
2. install the packaged files, then
3. chown the files by user:group

Should I?

[TrevorH]

Are you 100% sure that's not an SRPM? I've never seen those messages from anything else.

[warron.french]

Yes, I am certain of it.

[aks]

None of this really matters. The way this works is that some NUMBER is "mapped" (via /etc/group or /etc/passwd and/or friends) to a label.

The "label" root is meaningless - it's uid 0/gid 0 (for root, by default and traditionally). The 0 counts not the label root. That's the "thing" used in the comparisons at execution.

But back to the problem: root- really sounds like a typo. Have you got something like chmod root:root- in something used to build (or even chgrp root-). I'd grep across the whole subtree for root- (you may have to escape the - though).

[warron.french]

I am going to do an egrep search for 'root-' to see if I can find the culprit.

[warron.french]

This never really worked out, but my RPM installs successfully.

[aks]

Has the message gone?

[warron.french]

Not that I remember last installation; I added commands to the SPEC file to create a user/group pair and then chown the directory of concern to the same user/group pair.