Any way to prevent do-extract chmod and chown?

[Joseph Ward]

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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