[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] group request

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Darin,

(moving from buildfarm@ to maintainers@ is the topic is of general
interest).

Am 16.04.2010 um 17:53 schrieb Darin Perusich:

> Dago,
>
>>>
>>> I'm rebuilding with this option but I don't believe it's going to be
>>> adequate. The problem when setting --disable-installperms is the
>>> permission are then not properly set during 'make install' and the  
>>> user
>>> and group pairs in the prototype will not be properly setup, there  
>>> are
>>> some 90+ files/dirs which need to be amanda:sys.
>>>
>>> This is definitely a fakeroot problem on Solaris 9. I've tested the
>>> chown operation on Solaris 8 and 10 (w/ fakeroot built for sol10)  
>>> and
>>> it's functioning properly. I guess simply building on 8 will be the
>>> easiest way to get around this for now.
>>
>> Ok then, the Solaris 8 machines are still (and will be) remain in
>> place, so for now it should be ok. If you want to do a GAR build
>> later: GAR does not support fakeroot and fully relies on DESTDIR.
>> The prototype can then be adjusted programmatically with regular
>> expressions per field.
>
> If a package needs to set a large number of specific permission for
> users, groups, files, etc, having to adjust them individually w/ 
> regex's
> sounds overly complicated and error prone to me. What happens when a  
> new
> release is available and these change?

Then you must check the permissions. Usually, the changes are specific
to certain directories or specific binaries, so the level of change
should be manageable.

> In this instance amanda does fully support DESTDIR but you need to set
> some files to root:sys which are setgid, others amanda:sys, and others
> root:root. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this for a
> maintainer...using fakeroot, compiling as root to ensure user:groups  
> are
> properly set, or some ever changing regex's? I'm not looking for an
> answer, simply point out that these are complicated issues.

How does fakeroot work? Make a library interposer and grab the chown
calls? As the packaging processo can obviously not run as root I don't
see an easy alternative to manually setting permissions here - ideas
of course welcome!


Best regards

   -- Dago