Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9516] Error while installing wireshark-1.10.3 from RPM bui
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:58:42 +0000

changed bug 9516

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Comment # 10 on bug 9516 from 
(In reply to comment #9)
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> 10.118.213.156:/home/vishnu.bhatt
>                      300648216 201159640  83970184  71% /home1/vishnu.bhatt

OK, that's NFS, and you can't set capability bits over NFS, as NFS has no
notion of capability bits for files.

I don't know what the right way is to construct a package that sets
capabilities on files if possible and doesn't give errors if it can't.

And part of the problem here is that Wireshark *will behave differently*
depending on whether the capabilities are set on dumpcap or not - it will be
able to capture without special privileges if they're set, but won't be able to
capture with special privileges if they're not.

I would try doing "make distclean" and then configuring with
--disable-setcap-install and --enable-setuid-install and building Wireshark and
the RPM; that might get rid of the setting of the capabilities and, instead,
make dumpcap set-UID, which is the best you can do with an NFS-mounted file
system.

Try that and see whether it works.  If not, we might have to make the "build
the RPM" steps pay attention to those two configuration flags.

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