ACL/Attr

[Luca]

Kdelibs-<version>, Samba and other packages support ACL/Attr for file permission Access Control Lists.

​ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/acl_2.2.39-1.tar.gz ​ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/attr_2.4.32-1.tar.gz

ACL needs Attr to be installed first.

Attr building instructions:

make configure
make
make install install-lib install-dev

Lib64 enabled by default, I disabled it with:

sed -i 's@--enable-lib64=yes@--enable-lib64=no@' Makefile

To turn off debugging asserts and turn on optimizer it is possible to set the following variables before running make configure: OPTIMIZER=-O DEBUG=-DNDEBUG

ACL building instructions:

make configure
make
make install install-lib install-dev

Lib64 enabled by default, I disabled it with:

sed -i 's@--enable-lib64=yes@--enable-lib64=no@' Makefile

To turn off debugging asserts and turn on optimizer it is possible to set the following variables before running make configure: OPTIMIZER=-O DEBUG=-DNDEBUG

By default ACL and Attr creates symlinks from /usr/lib/libacl{a,la} and /usr/lib/libattr{a,la} to /lib and install lib{acl,attr}.{so,so.1,so.1.1.0} in /lib and symlinks lib{acl,attr}.so from /lib to /usr/lib.

[alexander@…]

Implementing this would also require a page about patched coreuils.

[alexander@…]

As pointed out by Luca, new coreutils (6.9) no longer require a patch, but still have to be recompiled. This way, a pointer has to be added into the LFS coreutils page to Attr and ACL.

[DJ Lucas]

Things have changed considerably...these will be required for Gnome-2.28 (actually for udev because of gudev).

# attr-2.4.43
./configure --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root \
    PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/attr-2.4.43 install &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root install-lib &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root install-dev &&
sudo rm /usr/lib/libattr.so &&
sudo ln -sf libattr.so.1.1.0 /usr/lib/libattr.so &&
sudo /sbin/ldconfig

# acl-2.2.47
./configure --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root \
    PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/acl-2.2.47 install &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root install-lib &&
sudo make PKG_USER=root PKG_GROUP=root install-dev &&
sudo rm /usr/lib/libacl.so &&
sudo ln -sf libacl.so.1.1.0 /usr/lib/libacl.so &&
sudo /sbin/ldconfig

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

It seems this package comes with tests but I cannot get any meaningful results from them. i.e. lots of errors. Executed 'make tests root-tests ext-tests'. I got the packages from the following urls: ​http://mirror.dknss.com/nongnu/attr/attr-2.4.44.src.tar.gz ​http://mirror.dknss.com/nongnu/acl/acl-2.2.48.src.tar.gz

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

Worked it out, the tests require a xfs filesystem. Even then, it still has a few failures.

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

Need to rebuild coreutils to reduce the test failures even further. (so that ls can display the acl bit) One of the ongoing failures is due to not finding the sort-getfattr-output script/command. No idea where to find this.

[bdubbs@…]

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