[yocto] permissions when installing scripts

[Bas Mevissen]

cp -a or --preserve(=<something>) optionally combined with other options 
does the trick. However, using install is the better solution.


-- Bas.

On 2018-10-15 14:35, Burton, Ross wrote:
> As you've discovered, cp doesn't preserve permissions.  Using install
> -m755 is the idiom.
> 
> Ross
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 11:12, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have package which contains bunch of scripts (with +x flag for
>> user). When installed in do_install method (simply by copying them to
>> destination) they loose +x flag. I know copying directly is not best
>> approach but there exists better way how to keep scripts permissions
>> like in repo (except calling install -m 755 for all of them)? Thanks.
>> 
>> BR,
>> 
>> marek
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