Thank you, I'll look into that tool and will reply back (for future seekers) if it does what I need.
-Joseph On 06/28/2018 19:00, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 3:06 PM Mathieu Arnold, <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 01:43:41PM -0400, Joseph Ward wrote: >>> Thank you. I found that to be the case; even though changing the >>> "do-extract" target successfully staged the files and directories with >>> the original permissions, pkg create seems to strip them out again >>> without the pkg-plist additions. >>> >>> Are you aware of an easy/already existing command to create the >>> pkg-plist with the user/group/permissions items for each file, or is >>> that a script I'm going to have to write manually? I'm currently using >>> the makeplist target as there are no subsitutions or anything else that >>> would screw up the default scenario. >> I am not aware of anything. But if you already have "stuff" creating a >> big hierarchy with many users and groups, it may be easier to adapt >> "stuff" to generate a pkg-plist file, or maybe to split your ports into >> smaller, more manageable bits. >> >> make makeplist will give you a correct listing of files and >> directories, but as everything runs as a regular user, it cannot be >> aware of the users/groups you intend on using in the plist. >> > Isn't this something mtree can be used for? > > Use it to generate a listing of the files, permissions, and ownership of a > tree, include the mtree output file in the port, and use a post-install > script to run mtree to set ownership/permission. > > Cheers, > Freddie > > Typos courtesy of my phone's keyboard. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
