Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:19:16 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handling directory ownership in pkg-plist Message-ID: <B902B937-BEF0-4F21-B953-66B0B5696A3A@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8932039662e23e447f019a3b98bb9b90@bsdforge.com> References: <c6b5e1c6-f925-6df0-862e-76ea83fd80cb@rees.space> <623897a8b8aaf941d59f39f2f32e4326@bsdforge.com> <967F2C8E-AD27-4003-A5B7-6B39D1911572@FreeBSD.org> <8932039662e23e447f019a3b98bb9b90@bsdforge.com>
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Afternoon,
On 7 February 2021 19:05:26 GMT, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>On 2021-02-07 02:18, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
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>> Thamks for the reply.
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>> On 7 February 2021 03:57:03 GMT, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
>wrote:
>>> On 2021-02-06 13:34, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> Resurrecting audio/ampache-resurrect, and I have @owner www/@group
>>> www above
>>>> all
>>>> of the WWWDIR files, and they are correctly owned. However, the
>>> directories
>>>> under
>>>> it are all still owned by root:wheel, and if I explicitly add them
>>> all with
>>>> @dir
>>>> pkg then complains about not being able to find them.
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>>>> Would it be unacceptable to just have @exec chown -R www:www
>>> %D/%%WWWDIR%%
>>>> at the bottom?
>>> Yes. By way of pre-install:
>>> You'll probably get a complaint unless you use: ${CHOWN}
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>> Perhaps I was unclear- I'm referring to pkg-plist, so there is no
>${CHOWN}=20
>> there.
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>> The exact proposed line is
>>=20
>> @postexec chown -R www:www %D/%%WWWDIR%%
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>> I was wondering what the 'proper' way to do this was.
>I'm wondering why it's not enough to create a post-extract that doesn't
>
>something
>like
>cd ${WRKSRC}/some/dir && ${CHOWN} -R ${WWUSER}:${WWGROUP} .
>Then the ports framework would create an appropriate pkg-plist based on
>that.=20
>A
>make -DBATCH makeplist would generate your target pkg-plist.
>
>I'm paraphrasing, as I don't have your Makefile. But I've needed to
>perform=20
>tasks
>like myself. Out of curiosity. What does a make -DBATCH makeplist
>generate?=20
>Does
>the output provide the necessary clues to create a pkg-plist you're=20
>interested in?
CHOWN can't be used in the Makefile as you need root.
make makeplist used after CHOWN does nothing different- it appears not to n=
otice that they have different owners.
There is nothing documented on this that I can find, so I'll commit the @po=
stexec line.
Chris
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