Re: Making syspkgs and makefs play nice together

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> syspkgs has a slightly different landscape than pkgsrc and it should
> be making lots of use of @owner/@group. IMHO all syspkgs PLISTs should
> start with an explicit @owner/@group because the packaging system
> doesn't seem to guarantee what the default ownerships are.

syspkgs make no use of @owner or @group.  Ownership and mode is encoded
in the pax header of each file in the .tgz file.

--apb (Alan Barrett)