Re: PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT=destdir problem?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 2019-09-03 14:29, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> writes:
> > [INN] installs a swath of files with custom ownership and
> > permissions. After dumping all that into work/.destdir, it drops root
> > privilege, and then surprisingly is not able to package some of the
> > files.
> >
> > Is this something the package needs to fix, or has the destdir support
> > bit-rotted?
>
> I wonder if you can get it to use nbinstall writing METALOG, so that it
> can produce the package without root.  

Sounds lovely. Do you have an example package that I could look at?

> Lots of packages end up with root-owned files, I think.

Yes, I wondered...

> Are some of the files user=root mode=0600, so that the non-root user
> can't read them?

news.news 0640, which amounts to the same.

Cheerio,
hauke

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