Need to be able to specify what user and group the RPM installs files

[lewisskslipstone]

Need the ability to specify which user and group the files get when they are installed. Currently we hard code the file user and group to root:root in GenericPackageSettings.scala

Seq(
packageMappingWithRename((binaries ++ directories):*) withUser "root" withGroup "root" withPerms "0755",
packageMappingWithRename(compressedManPages:).gzipped withUser "root" withGroup "root" withPerms "0644",
packageMappingWithRename(configFiles:) withConfig() withUser "root" withGroup "root" withPerms "0644",
packageMappingWithRename(remaining:*) withUser "root" withGroup "root" withPerms "0644"
)

[jsuereth]

If you need to change what the "generic" settings are doing, you can run a transformation on them, like so:

linuxPackageMappings := {
  val old = linuxPackageMappings.value
  for {
    mappings <- old
    if needsMyUser(mappings)
  } yield {
     val meta = mappings.fileData.withUser("myUser").withGroup("myGroup")
     mappings.copy(fileData = meta)
  }
}

Another thing I'd recommend here is to only add the user bit for RPMs (debians are more finicky here, and we haven't figured out the best way to do UIDs):

linuxPackageMappings in Rpm := {
  val old = linuxPackageMappings.value
  ....
}

I'm going to leave this open to provide some configuration to the "automatic" rpm settings for this kind of functoinality. Let me know if the mechanism above doesn't work for you.

[muuki88]

This is not the case anymore. The keys

appUser in Linux
appGroup in Linux

are used as defaults

[muuki88]

IMHO this ticket can be closed, as the functionality is documented in the archetypes description.

This is the default setting and the way you change it:

appUser <<= normalizedName, 
appGroup <<= appUser in Linux

normalizedName may be ambigious, use sbt.Keys.normalizedName then.

All your packages are then owned by appUser / appGroup.