[OE-core] how does files/fs-perms.txt affect building base-files rpm?

[Mark Hatle]

On 3/11/17 3:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
>> On 3/11/17 12:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>
>>>   potentially a dumb question, but do the settings in
>>> files/fs-perms.txt affect the building of the base-files rpm just
>>> as they would affect the building of any other rpm?
>>
>> it should be executing fixup_perms() in PKGD before splitting the
>> package, so yes it should run for all recipes.
> 
>   so it is possible that, despite the manual settings in the
> base-files do_install() task, fs-perms.txt might override some of
> those settings. i'm not saying i've seen anything like that, just
> clarifying the possibility.

Yes, same for all packages.

At one point I thought there was a comment in both the base-files and
fs-perms.txt files reminding people they should be kept in sync.  I am not
finding that comment.

--Mark

> rday
>