[yocto] preserving file owners in do_package
Davide Soldan
davide.soldan at kynetics.it
Tue Oct 15 09:12:42 PDT 2013
In data martedì 15 ottobre 2013 11:38:21, Paul Eggleton ha scritto:
> Hi Davide,
>
> On Tuesday 15 October 2013 12:02:20 Davide Soldan wrote:
> > in my recipe I want to change owner and permission of a file, so I wrote:
> >
> > do_install() {
> > ls -la ${D}/opt/user
> > chown -R user ${D}/opt/user
> > chgrp -R user ${D}/opt/user
> > ls -la ${D}/opt/user
> > chmod 754 ${D}/opt/user/user.sh
> > ls -la ${D}/opt/user
> > }
> >
> > the output of ls commands is:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 *root root* 55753 Aug 2 08:48 user.sh
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 user user 4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 *user user* 55753 Aug 2 08:48 user.sh
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 user user 4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> > *-rwxr-xr--* 1 user user 55753 Aug 2 08:48 user.sh
> >
> > So the change of owner and permission works fine in do_install phase.
> > Opening the final rootfs tarball, however, the file user.sh has still 754
> > permission but root as owner...so do_package doesn't preserve owner change
> > done in do_install? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong in changing file
> > owner? Any ideas? Thanks to all!
>
> Does your recipe create the specified user via useradd.bbclass?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
I solved with a postinstall script (that run at boot):
pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
#!/bin/sh -e
if [ x"$D" = "x" ]; then
chown -R user /opt/user
chgrp -R user /opt/user
else
exit 1
fi
}
Cheers
Davide
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