[OE-core] Directory permissions and ownership -- RFC

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 jun 2011, om 21:12 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:

> On 6/21/11 1:57 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:43 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> Adjust the umask to 022.  This resolves the problem of dynamically generated
>>> directories (mkdir -p) and specific files (touch foo) having odd permissions.
>>> 
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=mhatle/perms&id=d8470b6a8efdbba04cef5d4dc1ce12720fe83621
>> 
>> Are you confident that this isn't going to break anything like
>> group-shared DL_DIRs?  I'm not entirely thrilled about forcing the umask
>> to 022 for everything that bitbake does, although I can see that making
>> it be so for particular tasks like do_install() might have some merit.
>> Even in the latter case, though, I wonder whether we should just be
>> paying more attention to recipe hygiene and using "install -m ..." with
>> the permissions that we actually want.
> 
> This is why I bring this up.. I'm a bit concerned that doing it generally will
> have unintended consequences.  So far I am not aware of any.  Moving it to a
> different place in the process may be better.  The only issue I've found so far
> is that just coding int into "do_install" really isn't an option.  Between the
> custom do_install components, various classes, etc.. it's difficult in the
> current infrastructure to find a centralized location to set the value.

Would something like this work?

myclass.bbclass:

addtask mytask before do_package after do_install

mytask() {
	do stuff
}

DISTRO.conf:

# do stuff
INHERIT += "myclass"

regards,

Koen