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Date:      Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:39:43 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pkg_create and setting directory ownership. 
Message-ID:  <5627.899429983@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 22:41:50 BST." <XFMail.980702224150.dmlb@computer.my.domain> 

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> I'm trying to get pkg_create (on -2.2.6) to set the ownership of some
> directories for a package I'm building. The problem is that
> the @owner directive only affects the files listed in the plist. If you
> list a directory the whole tree below that point is added to the
> final package tar file.

Which is a known "limitation" (I hesitate to call it a bug).  That's
one reason most folks don't list directory names in plists, just their
contents, and then set the directory ownerships in an mtree file if
necessary (though if you've only a few, nobody will grumble if you "cheat"
a little with @exec :-).

- Jordan

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