On 10/17/07, Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 15:55 Wed 17 Oct , Daniel Drake (dsd) wrote: > >> 1.1 sys-apps/sandbox/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r1.ebuild > >> > >> file : > >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sandbox/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup > >> plain: > >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/sandbox/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain > > > >> keepdir /var/log/sandbox > >> fowners root:portage /var/log/sandbox > >> fperms 0770 /var/log/sandbox > >> > >> cd ${S} > >> dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README > >> } > >> > >> pkg_preinst() { > >> chown root:portage ${D}/var/log/sandbox > >> chmod 0770 ${D}/var/log/sandbox > >> } > > > > How come you need to repeat the permissions like this? > > > > Also, quoting. =) > > > > Thanks, > > Donnie > > Also, pkg_preinst() is not binary package safe. So unless the portage > group is always the same gid on EVERY Gentoo box. This will break binary > packages.
Eh? pkg_* runs for binpkgs...so depending on the target machine it will chown appropriately in $IMAGE and then merge to the livefs. If you build the binpkg on machine A and install it on B, pkg_preinst will run on both (once for the build and one for the install) -Alec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
