Re: cygport: Request a new feature in order to set owner/group names in packaged tarballs.

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 04.08.2020 um 22:34 schrieb Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 15:46:13 +0200, Thomas Wolff
>> Am 04.08.2020 um 14:54 schrieb Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps:
>>> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:24:11 +0200
>>> From: Achim Gratz
>>>
>>>> Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin writes:
>>>>> This is another patch, so that cygport shall make tarballs with
>>>>> specified owner and group names.
>>>> Cygport patches should better go to cygwin-apps.  I've already sent a
>>>> patch that allows you to do the same thing some time ago, but it has
>>>> not been reviewed yet.
>>>>
>>>> https://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git/commitdiff/c6af2ca23aae5da3e99c70cf2b704430b929f431
>>>>
>>> Nice.
>>>
>>> Then, how about a commit following yours.
>> It is much less than obvious in that older patch that you can trick the owner/group information into that option.
>> I'd appreciate a simple explicit option for that.
> All right.
>
> I've simplified options to Simplify options to CYGPORT_TAR_OPTS and
> CYGPORT_TAR_EXT.
>
> https://github.com/cygwin-lem/cygport/commit/5a502cc84b8db0b47eae8b3571d363d106e74160
>
>
> This will work:
>
> CYGPORT_TAR_OPTS="--owner=foo --group=bar" cygport baz.cygport package
>
> And if you have tar >=1.31, these will also work:
>
> CYGPORT_TAR_EXT=".tar.zst" cygport baz.cygport package
>
> CYGPORT_TAR_OPTS="--owner=foo --group=bar" CYGPORT_TAR_EXT=".tar.zst" cygport baz.cygport package
I'd like to suggest, additionally to an explicit option, to set user and 
group by default, as it is also a privacy issue to spread the packager's 
user name out to the world in the tar archive.
In that case I'd use the project name (no version) for the user name and 
"cygwin" for the group name.
Thomas