Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 17:30:28 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pkg_create and setting directory ownership. Message-ID: <XFMail.980703173028.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <5627.899429983@time.cdrom.com>
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On 03-Jul-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I'm trying to get pkg_create (on -2.2.6) to set the ownership of some >> directories for a package I'm building. The problem is that >> the @owner directive only affects the files listed in the plist. If you >> list a directory the whole tree below that point is added to the >> final package tar file. > > Which is a known "limitation" (I hesitate to call it a bug). That's > one reason most folks don't list directory names in plists, just their > contents, and then set the directory ownerships in an mtree file if > necessary (though if you've only a few, nobody will grumble if you "cheat" > a little with @exec :-). I've only got four directories to deal with so chmod it is. Would anyone find it useful if I had a bash at removing the "limitation"? I'm happy to fix it, if it needs to be. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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