(Moving to macports-dev) Frank Stock wrote:
My main focus is .pkg component installers targeting systems where a development toolchain is not realistic. * Do you think it would be possible to use mtree and add_users data to generate code for a postinstall script handling user/group creation and file ownership? * If so, would there be any interest from the MacPorts team in a pull request for that?
So it sounds like you're saying that file ownership is not currently preserved by 'port pkg'? :)
Yes, a reasonable PR to fix that would most likely be accepted. However I don't think a postinstall script would be required, I'm pretty sure it would just be a config option for pkgbuild or something.
- Josh
