Any way to prevent do-extract chmod and chown?

[Freddie Cash]

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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