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Subject: Re: preserving file owners in do_package
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Hi Davide,

On Tuesday 15 October 2013 12:02:20 Davide Soldan wrote:
> in my recipe I want to change owner and permission of a file, so I wrote:
> 
> do_install() {
>         ls -la ${D}/opt/user
>         chown -R user ${D}/opt/user
>         chgrp -R user ${D}/opt/user
>         ls -la ${D}/opt/user
>         chmod 754 ${D}/opt/user/user.sh
>         ls -la ${D}/opt/user
> }
> 
> the output of ls commands is:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root   4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 *root root*  55753 Aug  2 08:48 user.sh
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 8 user user   4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root       4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 *user user*  55753 Aug  2 08:48 user.sh
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 8 user user   4096 Oct 15 11:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root       4096 Oct 15 11:13 ..
> *-rwxr-xr--* 1 user user  55753 Aug  2 08:48 user.sh
> 
> So the change of owner and permission works fine in do_install phase.
> Opening the final rootfs tarball, however, the file user.sh has still 754
> permission but root as owner...so do_package doesn't preserve owner change
> done in do_install? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong in changing file
> owner? Any ideas? Thanks to all!

Does your recipe create the specified user via useradd.bbclass?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre