"warning: user does not exist - using root" when installing RPM using DNF

[allanlewis]

Describe the bug

When I install the 0.5.2 RPM on Fedora 31, I get the following messages in my terminal:

warning: user  does not exist - using root
warning: group  does not exist - using root

It seems like the RPM is expecting some particular user to exist?
These are the specific versions I'm using:

➜  ~ gh --version
gh version 0.5.2 (2020-01-29)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/latest
➜  ~ rpm -q gh
gh-0.5.2-1.x86_64

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. sudo dnf install https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v0.5.2/gh_0.5.2_linux_amd64.rpm
2. The package installs correctly but the messages mentioned above are printed.

Expected vs actual behavior

I don't expect to see any warnings when installing the RPM.

Logs

See above.

[vilmibm]

Thanks for letting us know! the RPM file was only tested with yum so we didn't see these warnings.

I'm not sure where the blank user/group is coming from but using root is the desired behavior. I'm guessing we might need more explicit configuration of npfms (

cli/.goreleaser.yml

Line 70 in c03b0d1

nfpms:

).

[oschwald]

I believe this has already been fixed in GoReleaser. See goreleaser/nfpm#117.

[mislav]

Thanks @oschwald! @allanlewis can you try with a newer RPM?

[allanlewis]

Thanks, @mislav, @oschwald, @vilmibm - I've installed the latest version and I didn't get any warnings 👍

[RokeJulianLockhart]

For future reference, @vilmibm, yum is deprecated in favour of dnf, although in recent versions of Fedora's OSes, yum should merely be a stub that redirects commands to dnf.