Handling directory ownership in pkg-plist

[Chris Rees]

Afternoon,

On 7 February 2021 19:05:26 GMT, Chris <portmaster at bsdforge.com> wrote:
>On 2021-02-07 02:18, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> Thamks for the reply.
>> 
>> On 7 February 2021 03:57:03 GMT, Chris <portmaster at bsdforge.com>
>wrote:
>>> On 2021-02-06 13:34, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Resurrecting audio/ampache-resurrect, and I have @owner www/@group
>>> www above
>>>> all
>>>> of the WWWDIR files, and they are correctly owned.  However, the
>>> directories
>>>> under
>>>> it are all still owned by root:wheel, and if I explicitly add them
>>> all with
>>>> @dir
>>>> pkg then complains about not being able to find them.
>>>> 
>>>> Would it be unacceptable to just have @exec chown -R www:www
>>> %D/%%WWWDIR%%
>>>> at the bottom?
>>> Yes. By way of pre-install:
>>> You'll probably get a complaint unless you use: ${CHOWN}
>> 
>> Perhaps I was unclear- I'm referring to pkg-plist, so there is no
>${CHOWN} 
>> there.
>> 
>> The exact proposed line is
>> 
>> @postexec chown -R www:www %D/%%WWWDIR%%
>> 
>> I was wondering what the 'proper' way to do this was.
>I'm wondering why it's not enough to create a post-extract that doesn't
>
>something
>like
>cd ${WRKSRC}/some/dir && ${CHOWN} -R ${WWUSER}:${WWGROUP} .
>Then the ports framework would create an appropriate pkg-plist based on
>that. 
>A
>make -DBATCH makeplist would generate your target pkg-plist.
>
>I'm paraphrasing, as I don't have your Makefile. But I've needed to
>perform 
>tasks
>like myself. Out of curiosity. What does a make -DBATCH makeplist
>generate? 
>Does
>the output provide the necessary clues to create a pkg-plist you're 
>interested in?

CHOWN can't be used in the Makefile as you need root.

make makeplist used after CHOWN does nothing different- it appears not to notice that they have different owners.

There is nothing documented on this that I can find, so I'll commit the @postexec line.

Chris

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