[yocto] setcap using recipe

[Burton, Ross]

Hi,

On 24 June 2016 at 11:41, Kumar, Shrawan <Shrawan.Kumar at harman.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to  add a capability to a binary (cap_net_raw+ep),into a
> recipe?
>
>
>
> Example :
>
> do_install() {
>
>            install -d ${D}${bindir}
>
>            install -m 0755 helloworld ${D}${bindir}
>
>            install -d ${D}/lib/systemd/system
>
>            install -m 0755 hello.service ${D}/lib/systemd/system/
>
>            setcap cap_net_raw+ep  ${D}${bindir}/helloworld
>
> }
>
>
>
> If yes is this correct approach to achieve the same from  package recipe
> itself ?
>

capabilities on files are just extended attributes, so assuming that you
have a fairly recent Yocto and your host and target filesystems support
extended attributes, yes this should work.

Ross
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