On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 22:47:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > One option would be to make dpkg-deb use an internal tar implementation, > > and add a file describing the attributes of the to be packaged files. > > That might make needing root privs (either through fakeroot or sudo) > > unneeded in most of the cases too. > > I found that this functionality is already present in BSD tar, > according to the manpage. You can provide a file containing > all the files to pack, plus their ownership and perms etc., > rather than just specifying the files on the command-line. > > ----bsdtar(1)---- > An input file in mtree(5) format can be used to create an output archive > with arbitrary ownership, permissions, or names that differ from existing > data on disk: [...] > -----------------
Yeah, mtree is actually one of the things I've been having in mind when considering ways to store file metadata in the dpkg suite. > I can't see an equivalent in GNU tar. But BSD tar is available > in Debian. This would imply BSD tar needs to be promoted to the Essential set alongside GNU tar, at which point I might as well just use an internal tar implementation. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513001013.gb6...@gaara.hadrons.org
