ports/190233: Ownership macros in pkg-plist broken for old pkg_* tools under certain circumstances
Thomas Zander
riggs at freebsd.org
Mon May 26 06:00:00 UTC 2014
>Number: 190233
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Ownership macros in pkg-plist broken for old pkg_* tools under certain circumstances
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon May 26 06:00:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Thomas Zander
>Release: FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Consider a pkg-plist that contains the following section to create empty dirs under /var/.../:
@owner freevo
@group freevo
@unexec rmdir /var/log/freevo 2>/dev/null || true
@exec mkdir /var/log/freevo
@unexec rmdir /var/run/freevo 2>/dev/null || true
@exec mkdir /var/run/freevo
@owner
@group
This works as desired on pkgng-enabled systems. It does NOT work on old pkg_* tools based systems. On these, both @owner and @group are simply ignored.
>How-To-Repeat:
Test the plist above or something comparable under systems not yet migrated to pkgng.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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