Nicolas Charles wrote on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:55 AM: > I'm trying to automate the deployement of applications on computers, so > I created a package (let's call it mypackage-3.0) > So I created a mypackage-3.0.tar.bz2 with all the necessary files, and a > /etc/postinstall/mypackage.sh script to set up files permissions. > > I added the package in a local repository folder, modified the setup.ini > to add the package and make it preselected. > > Then I hit setup.exe, everything seems to go fine : my package is there, > decompressed, the mypackage.sh is executed. > However, no file permission is changed (on a Win2K, all files have 777 > permission, on a Win2k3 it's 750) > I know the script is executed, for I have a mypackage.sh.done file > > > I don't even understand why the file permissions are not the ones of the > original files (tar.bz2 ought to keep the original file permission, and > i tried by deflatting the archive, resulting in the right permissions) > The script works: if I run it, the files are modified as I would expect > > What should I do ?
By default, the current setup.exe disables Cygwin permissions when running postinstall scripts by adding nontsec to the CYGWIN environment variable; that's why your file permissions are not being set in the postinstall file. It also doesn't understand Cygwin permissions itself, so it installs files from the tar.bz2 using Windows ACL semantics. A workaround should be to set CYGWIN=ntsec inside the postinstall script. I don't know if that takes immediate effect, but I do know (from one of my own custom packages) that it works for scripts spawned from the postinstall script, at least (i.e. run 'CYGWIN=ntsec mychownscript' from your postinstall script). As I understand it, newer versions of setup.exe (such as for Cygwin 1.7, though there might be a snapshot of setup.exe for Cygwin 1.5 that has these changes, too; I don't know) will install files using Cygwin permissions, so such workaround will not be necessary when 1.7 is released. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
