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From: Andrew Ruder <andrew.ruder@elecsyscorp.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] fs/common.mk: Add support for fakeroot script
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:23:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131018202323.GA23065@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131015161941.5d7ffd45@skate>

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:19:41PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Well, the conventional way would be to have those directories created
> by packages (and they can use the <pkg>_PERMISSIONS mechanism to get
> proper ownership or permissions). Or, if they really don't belong to
> any package, create them in the post build script, and have a device
> table assign the permission and ownership.

I didn't realize the device table functionality could modify arbitrary
file/directory ownerships but looking through the makedevs source code
that DOES appear to be true.  I guess let's just consider this thread as
a question disguised as a poorly spelled patch. :)

Cheers,
Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 13:21 [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] fs/common.mk: Add support for fakeroot script Andrew Ruder
2013-10-15 14:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-18 20:23   ` Andrew Ruder [this message]
2013-10-18 20:49     ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-10-18 21:35       ` Andrew Ruder
2013-10-18 22:07         ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-10-27  9:30 ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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