Re: Directory permissions and ownership -- RFC

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 6/21/11 4:37 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:27 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> I don't know how to do this within bitbake (easily).  The table is currently a
>> static set of paths that exist within the distribution as a whole.  They are not
>> recipe specific, but you can have more then one file... the assumption is
>> different layers may bring in additional files, only if necessary.
>>
>> If there is existing code I can use to identify and resolve in-line variables,
>> I'll be happy to add that into the code.  I'd certainly like to add that
>> capability, but so far we don't have it.  (Would be nice in the device_table
>> file.. but I doubt that's practical as the code is not run within python.)
> 
> I think bb.data.expand() should do what you need there.
> 
> p.
> 
> 

Based on the above, I reworked the package.bbclass commit.  The new version is
located at:

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=mhatle/perms&id=7b59d7817771ba6bcf85a9816910e2bc036acf52

Functionally it's almost the same, but structurally it has changed a lot.  From
the last version to this version:

* create a local (to fixup_perms) a function to actually setup the data structure

* remove the default documentation, locale and header correction entries
  - move them to the fs-perms.txt

* When processing a "line" to setup the data structure, we expand all of the
variables with it first.  This not only allows for the directory to be set with
a variable, but also the mode, uid, and gid if necessary.

--Mark