Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:39:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pkg_create and setting directory ownership. Message-ID: <5627.899429983@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 22:41:50 BST." <XFMail.980702224150.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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> 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 :-). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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