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From: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
To: Bas Mevissen <abuse@basmevissen.nl>
Cc: Yocto-mailing-list <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: permissions when installing scripts
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:53:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJTo0Lbrf_n0LbCo0undU6=cCSnGbekg6V3Yg2saFqdjPpmFxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0a632a1a5264a72d4be11ee371f7d64@basmevissen.nl>

cp -a will preserve ownership, which you don't want.

Ross
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 19:45, Bas Mevissen <abuse@basmevissen.nl> wrote:
>
>
>
> cp -a or --preserve(=<something>) optionally combined with other options
> does the trick. However, using install is the better solution.
>
>
> -- Bas.
>
> On 2018-10-15 14:35, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > As you've discovered, cp doesn't preserve permissions.  Using install
> > -m755 is the idiom.
> >
> > Ross
> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 11:12, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have package which contains bunch of scripts (with +x flag for
> >> user). When installed in do_install method (simply by copying them to
> >> destination) they loose +x flag. I know copying directly is not best
> >> approach but there exists better way how to keep scripts permissions
> >> like in repo (except calling install -m 755 for all of them)? Thanks.
> >>
> >> BR,
> >>
> >> marek
> >>
> >> --
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-15 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15 10:11 permissions when installing scripts Belisko Marek
2018-10-15 12:35 ` Burton, Ross
2018-10-15 18:45   ` Bas Mevissen
2018-10-15 18:53     ` Belisko Marek
2018-10-15 18:53     ` Burton, Ross [this message]
2018-10-15 19:02       ` Bas Mevissen

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