Feature request: Be able to set owner of directories

[tarjei]

Hi, great package!

It would be really swell to have a simple way to chown all or some directories to the installing user so that tmp dirs etc can be setup within the package.

Regards,
Tarjei

[heartsucker]

Hey @tarjei. Thanks for the suggestion, but as I mentioned in #26, I think this will start to add a bit too much to this tool. For example, if you had a directory tree like:

/dir
|----/sub1
|   |----file1.txt
|   |----file2.txt
|   |----file3.txt
|----/sub2
    |----fileA.txt
    |----fileB.txt
    |----fileC.txt

The syntax in the node_deb object in package.json would have to be something like:

{
  "permissions": {
    "/var/lib/my-app-name/": "0750:my-user:my-group",
    "/var/lib/my-app-name/dir": "0750:my-user:my-group",
    "/var/lib/my-app-name/dir/sub1": "0750:my-user:my-group",
    "/var/lib/my-app-name/dir/sub1/file1": "0640:my-user:my-group",
    ...
  }
}

While itself not hard to implement, this would bloat the package.json and I don't think anything beyond basic Debian packing should be a first class feature of node-deb.

However, because of the --template-postinst flag, you could override the default postinst script that is run on package installation and include a series of chown and chmod commands to handle your specific needs.

I also think this job of permissions is best handled by a tool like ansible or chef, so when we've used this, the workflow has been something like:

1. Build Debian package via CI tool
2. Push to Debian repo
3. Trigger deployment scripts
4. Configure server, install .deb, configure some more

[tarjei]

Good call. I like your suggerstion of using a postinst script.
T

2016-11-04 11:01 GMT+01:00 heartsucker notifications@github.com:

Hey @tarjei https://github.com/tarjei. Thanks for the suggestion, but
as I mentioned in #26 #26,
I think this will start to add a bit too much to this tool. For example, if
you had a directory tree like:

/dir
|----/sub1
| |----file1.txt
| |----file2.txt
| |----file3.txt
|----/sub2
|----fileA.txt
|----fileB.txt
|----fileC.txt

The syntax in the node_deb object in package.json would have to be
something like:

{
"permissions": {
"/var/lib/my-app-name/": "0750:my-user:my-group",
"/var/lib/my-app-name/dir": "0750:my-user:my-group",
"/var/lib/my-app-name/dir/sub1": "0750:my-user:my-group",
"/var/lib/my-app-name/dir/sub1/file1": "0640:my-user:my-group",
...
}
}

While itself not hard to implement, this would bloat the package.json and
I don't think anything beyond basic Debian packing should be a first class
feature of node-deb.

However, because of the --template-postinst flag, you could override the
default postinst script that is run on package installation and include a
series of chown and chmod commands to handle your specific needs.

I also think this job of permissions is best handled by a tool like
ansible or chef, so when we've used this, the workflow has been something
like:

1. Build Debian package via CI tool
2. Push to Debian repo
3. Trigger deployment scripts
4. Configure server, install .deb, configure some more

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