bg-installer: Standardzied installer program
The program bg-installer
reads an installation instruction file from standard input, and executes the instructions in the directory named on the command line.
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Each line in the file is an individual instruction. Blank lines and lines beginning with #
are ignored. All other lines must have following format:
CMD:[UID]:[GID]:MODE:DIR[:FILENAME[:SOURCE]]
- CMD is a single character specifying the installation command.
- UID (optional) is the owner ID for the target file
- GID (optional) is the group ID for the target file
- MODE is the permissions of the installed file in octal.
- DIR is the subdirectory of the installation prefix for the destination file.
- FILENAME (optional) is the name of the file to install into the directory. It may be omitted for directories.
- SOURCE (optional) is the name of the source file to install, if it differs from the destination file, or the path in the symlink.
The target filename is PREFIX/TOP/DIR/FILENAME
where PREFIX
is the value of $install_prefix
if it is set, TOP
is the directory given on the command line, and DIR
and FILENAME
given in the installation file.
- c lines copy regular files from the current directory
- d lines create directories
- s lines create symlinks (
UID
, GID
, and MODE
are ignored)
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