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:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>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:
>Audit-Trail:
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