[aur-general] Chmod files in a package

[Nathan Owens]

On 12/30/2010 11:17 PM, Tony C wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 07:42 PM, Nathan Owens wrote:
>> I am working on package bglibs, it has a installer that installs the
>> libs and such. Namcap gives that usr/lib/bglibs/lib/... needs 444 or
>> 644 directories and files need permission set to 644 or 444. I have
>> tried chmod -R 644 $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib and that doesn't work.
>> Also I have tried:
>>
>> for dir in $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib
>>     do
>>         chmod -R 644  $dir
>>    done
>>
>> also I have tried:
>> find $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib -type d -exec chmod 644 {}\;
>>
>> None of the above worked.
> Directories should typically have a permission of 755 while regular
> files use 644.You should use 'install' with something like install -m644
> lib "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/bglibs/lib which will install the 'lib' file
> with mode 644 inside the $pkgdir
>
I know how to do it by hand, but this package uses an installer, atleast 
builds it. Though it doesn't give you control like configure would or 
such, it is a binary file called bg-installer.