-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/27/2014 01:07 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 27/01/2014 00:38, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote: >> I am looking at this part of >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir >> >> Replace commands like ${CHMOD} ... and ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} -m mode >> -o user -g group with corresponding pkg-plist entries: @mode >> mode, @owner user, @group group. /!\ These operators work until >> being overridden, or until the end of pkg-plist, so do not forget >> to reset them with @mode, @owner, @group keywords afterwards. >> >> I have to admit that I don't understand what this is driving at. >> Can someone explain it to me? > > This is all about being able to create packages without needing > superuser powers. The idea is to take privileged commands like > chmod(1) (or the implied chmod from using the -o flag to > install(1)) out of install: targets in the port Makefile (which > nowadays install into the staging directory) and replace them with > equivalent constructs in pkg-plist (which are extracted into the > generated pkg as pre/post- install script actions) ie. so that > pkg(8) set the ownership of files at the point the package is > installed. > > Sometimes it involves a bit more than just editing the port > Makefile -- here's an example from one of my own ports, where I had > to fold, spindle and mutilate the software's own Makefiles to > achieve the desired result: > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=339461 > > This includes some other changes to do with using options helpers > etc. but it should be clear enough what was done to move changing > file ownership away from the staging step and into package > installation. Look at the chagnes to pkg-plist and > patch-Makefile.in in particular.
So it would only be necessary to do this if you want to set ownership to anything other than root:wheel, since the pkg install program should automatically set things to root:wheel anyway? (Because things installed the usual "make install" way will be set similarly?) And presumably the same for chmod - it would only be necessary when setting things like setuid or setgid bits, since otherwise it will merely copy permissions from whatever the file in the tarball has? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS5nJ9AAoJEC3xK9GaktgHvNgH/jzU+krSXo3zY3nllQyPl3gN h5jmqW8TqBO78l2+ZQ3fq7OR6IOHAbZBGOLQ/+pl+IPVJH66tPoRlFI985vT/eab 3/3FQDG9D8xu6WmLHKUPamCTm8NS8jEEnIoc2YMVHhu8MCNcgBcy4zmDiokodp9B nb036XNZJ78r6sZFad3Fpxc+g28zkHYRwDdwDED6+QhfKCTi8g8+bg8+1zN1mUga 0gDg84BBgGcAK52iZTCP+TBHC5sNNENeAWaCkF0JweEOq/i6KerV3L9KjipC3+E1 nt1gpvWRGltK/H7MhcSDVF7ig25FQkixrE6d30MffgbpnKV0lMATGUGWiuMN2/E= =4QAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
