Any way to prevent do-extract chmod and chown?

[Joseph Ward]

On 06/29/2018 09:51, Joseph Ward wrote:
> 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, <mat at 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.
>>
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Using mtree worked well.  I generated the mtree file for the hierarchy
on the original build machine, packaged it up as part of the package,
and then ran mtree -up </path> -f <mtreefile> in the pkg-post-install
script and it worked well.

One item I did encounter was the following error: pkg: POST-INSTALL
script failed but it didn't seem to impact anything; it ran successfully
and everything was permissioned as it should be.

Thanks,

Joseph