[csw-maintainers] GAR: building a package from loose files, with checksumming

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

Thanks Dago! Your example works.

I bumped against another problem: umask setting. My default umask
setting is 027. I think it influences GAR somehow, take a look at
this. I have an install directory with the correct permissions:

$ ls -l (...)/loose-files/trunk/work/install-isa-i386/opt/csw/include/curses.h
-rwxr-xr-x   1 blizinski eng        41408 Oct 13 13:40
(...)/loose-files/trunk/work/install-isa-i386/opt/csw/include/curses.h

This is OK: The file is world-readable. Let's take a look at the prototype:

$ cat work/build-global/CSWloosefilesexa.prototype-i386
f none /opt/csw/include/curses.h 0750 root bin
i depend=CSWloosefilesexa.depend
i pkginfo=CSWloosefilesexa.pkginfo

The file isn't world-readable! Are there any intermediate file copying
steps involved? If so, perhaps "gcp --preserve" could be used to
prevent umask from affecting the outcome?

Maciej