Re: Experiences with compiling Debian
>>>>> "joost" == joost witteveen <joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>>
>> > (in fakt so much, that I may be tempted to write it myself. You
>> > don't need that many changes).
>>
>> Well, you need to write your own version of make that looks for any attempt
>> to run chmod, chown etc, and then fakes all the ownership and modes in the
>> resulting tar.
joost> No, what I had in mind is changing chmod, chown and frends,
joost> and make them log the intended permissions in a file
joost> (specified somewhere in a environment variable), and then
joost> changing tar to look for that file (agian in that environment
joost> variable), and ajust the permissions/ownerships
joost> in the tar file according to that "permissons file".
>> I'm not sure whether it's possible in general even then, what if
>> the package tries to set the ownership of a file from within
>> another shell script or a perl script; how can you intercept that
>> so it works properly?
If you really want to do this, LD_PRELOAD=/some/where/debian-perm.so
from dpkg-buildpackage.
joost> Well, if you do it with perl, OK that wouldn't work, but how many
joost> packages use perl in their build process to set permissions on files?
majordomo for one. But we can add a perl module to do it properly, or
hack the perl-scripts to work better (or not be used). This is not
that difficult for majordomo anyway.
joost> I'm sure not very many. Actually I think most (97%) packages
joost> would build
joost> OK with what I had in mind.
>> With a few minor changes in the way packages are made---having
>> tars all made
>> as any user, and chowns done after the package is installed,
>> either in the postinst or by dpkg first (the former would have the
>> advantage of
>> running on
>> existing systems)---we could build as non-root.
joost> Well that would be a lot of changes: many postinst's would need to
joost> be changed.
No, the file permissions are set in the tar-file from the list
generated from the special versions of chmod. A tar-file can be made
as any user, you just need a tar which can understand how to put the
right permissions in the tar file.
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