Hi all, I discovered an issue in a couple of packages for which sage-on-gentoo provides ebuilds. Some packages install data directly from a tar command. By that I mean Makefile.am will a line like cd $(DESTDIR)$(dbdir) && tar xf $(dist_db_DATA) && rm $(dist_db_DATA)
From a real Makefile at https://github.com/sagemath/p_group_cohomology/blob/master/present/Makefile.am I looks innocuous until you realise it has some funny effects on ownership. fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/pGroupCohomology/ total 1.1M drwxr-xr-x 270 root root 12K Feb 3 21:55 . drwxr-xr-x 319 root root 12K Feb 3 21:55 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp1 drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp10 drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp100 drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp101 drwxr-xr-x 4 fbissey fbissey 4.0K Feb 9 10:46 64gp102 the files in the tarball are owned by user/group 1001:1001 and on my system it is my personal user. sci-mathematics/singular and that may include the version in the main tree, would have to check, install its documentation from a tarball as well fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/doc/singular-4.1.1_p2-r3/ total 216K drwxr-xr-x 3 2345 uucp 4.0K Nov 10 10:49 . drwxr-xr-x 1361 root root 64K Feb 9 10:39 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 2345 uucp 128K Nov 10 10:49 html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Nov 10 10:48 README.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517 Nov 10 10:48 README.md.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 585 Nov 10 10:48 README.pkg.bz2 fbissey@moonloop ~ $ ll /usr/share/doc/singular-4.1.1_p2-r3/html total 30M drwxr-xr-x 2 2345 uucp 128K Nov 10 10:49 . drwxr-xr-x 3 2345 uucp 4.0K Nov 10 10:49 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 915 Feb 14 2018 a_begin.gif -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 909 Feb 14 2018 a_begin_na.gif -rwxr-xr-x 1 2345 uucp 927 Feb 14 2018 a_document.gif I tried to use fowners inside the ebuild, but it only fixes file ownership, folders are not touched. I tried to insert “—no-same-owner” in the call to tar and that didn’t really help either. At best, I am expecting ownership to change to portage:portage. Has anyone dealt with something like this before? Apart from “recursively” scripting install in the make file is there anything simple I could do? Cheers, François