On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:38:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > > > With the above approach, the only hard question is how to set the > > ownership during the package build. fakeroot handles this just fine, > > but it does require the user/group to be present on the build > > system, which will not always be the case. Is there an alternative > > means to set/override the ownership during packing of a tarfile? > > Shouldn't be to hard to make fakeroot also create fake users and groups > specified in debian/passwd and debian/group (or similar).
fakeroot is the wrong level to do this. Think about how you are dependent upon the NSS databases and you need a valid db for the chown/chmod commands to work. Coupled with the fact that fakeroot is not required for building, I don't think this is a good plan. A wrapper around or replacement for chown/chmod is a possibility; this could store the changes in a file, rather than change the on-disc perms, ready for dpkg-deb to use. > That just leaves the question of wether dpkg uses uid/gid or symbolic > names when unpacking debs. I think this one is clear: it must be symbolic since the uids/gids aren't static. Unless you want to provide a package-specific mapping in the control data, and I can't see that gains much, since it makes unpacking unnecessarily complex. If it's symbolic, you simply just extract it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516130809.gb22...@codelibre.net
