On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:33:42PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote: > > >Would it be a bad idea to just do a > > tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz > >from my root directory? > > > >I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this > >throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway? > > I really don't know, I am not familiar enough with what dbootstrap > does behind the scenes of installation to know what will get broken > and how badly by doing this. i am sure there will be at least some > breakage in the form of creating a unconfigured base... > > does dpkg have a --set-perms option like RPM to set all permissions > in a package to what they should be? > > that would be perfect for this situation... > >
Try the attached script.
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#!/bin/sh
# Usage: tgz-perms.sh filename.tar.gz
octal_value() {
oo=""
if echo $1 | cut -b 1 | grep "l" >/dev/null ; then exit 1; fi
for e in `echo $1 | cut -b 2-4` `echo $1 | cut -b 5-7` `echo $1 | cut -b 8-10`
do
oo=${oo}`oct $e`
done
echo $oo
}
oct() {
case $1 in
"rwx") o=7;;
"rw-") o=6;;
"r--") o=4;;
"r-x") o=5;;
"rws") o=47;;
"r-s") o=45;;
"---") o=0;;
*) o=-1;;
esac
echo $o
}
for file in "$@" ; do \
for e in `tar tvzf $file | cut -c1-10,48,52-` ; do \
p=`echo $e | cut -c1-10`
f=`echo $e | cut -c12-`
if o=`octal_value $p` ; then \
echo "chmod $o $f"
chmod $o $f
fi
done
done
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