On 06/04/2018 04:55 PM, pacman-dev via pacman-dev wrote: > > Hello Pacman Dev, The basic question first, is there a way to create > a tarball with .PKGINFO and use that tarball as a pacman package to > install files with particular permissions without also adding a > .MTREE file to that tarball? > > More context, currently we install files into our servers using a > bash script. It pops open a tarball, keeping the users, groups, > permissions, times for the files in the tarball, then it copies each > file to the filesystem according to their location in the tarball. > It works great for a cheap slightly better then POC solution. That > tarball and a pacman pkg file are vary similar in that those are both > tar files, with the files listed according to their desired location > on the filesystem. So my idea was that it would be relatively easy > for me to add the appropriate .PKGINFO into the tarball and switch > from using my bash script to using pacman itself. This all worked > great, except for users. In this case the file was created, in the > right place, with the right permissions but the wrong user and group.
I'd suggest you have two choices to proceed from here: - use makepkg to repackage your tarball - generate the .MTREE which pacman expects The .MTREE is simple to make, this is where makepkg generates it: https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/scripts/makepkg.sh.in?h=v5.1.0#n763 As you can see, it's really just bsdtar --format=mtree with a couple other options. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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