[SOLVED] Is /opt empty by default?

ancrouter · 2011-10-06 18:01:25

Hello,
i had some issue installing a third party program. I downloaded it as binary, the only thing to do was to place it to /opt. It was a tar.bz2 file. it contents was opt folder, then PorgramName folder and so on. so i issued:

sudo tar xjvf archive.tar.bz2

while being in the root(/) folder. everything looked like to run smoothly, but after that i wanted to check /opt and it had 0700 permissions and owner 1003.... wtf? i changed user and group to root and permissions to 755 and opened the /opt directory and the only contents in it was the content from the archive. Is /opt by default empty or did i screw something up? System seems to work normal. I really don't remember what was in /opt nor what permissions did it have before i issued that command. Could this way off unpacking the archive break something?

Last edited by ancrouter (2011-10-06 21:43:52)

loafer · 2011-10-06 18:05:19

/opt will be empty unless you install something into it e.g. Java

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _Standards

Are you saying you installed the program without using pacman? Using a PKGBUILD is the way to go here.

ancrouter · 2011-10-06 18:07:44

This program is not in pacman repos and is also not in AUR. It is a toolchain for embedded development board.

loafer · 2011-10-06 18:10:49

ancrouter wrote:

This program is not in pacman repos and is also not in AUR. It is a toolchain for embedded development board.

You are welcome to submit a new package to the AUR at anytime.

ethail · 2011-10-06 18:10:55

ancrouter:

Then write a PKGBUILD, it's not hard and it will be very useful if you want to remove or upgrade that thing.

PS: you can also request a PKGBUILD

ancrouter · 2011-10-06 18:18:45

OK, i will try to make PKGBUILD. But can you guys post me permission, owner and group of your /opt directory? I still have a feeling that something gone wrong. Why it had 0700, owner "1003" and group "users"?

ethail · 2011-10-06 18:35:38

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 2 19:54 opt

There's /opt permissions

ConnorBehan · 2011-10-06 21:31:55

Incidentally, I don't understand what is up with directories having a number instead of an owner. e.g. I have

drwxr-xr-x 36 30123 18830 1808 Aug 19 18:31 root

ancrouter · 2011-10-06 21:39:17

i've been googling around and found the cause why tar changes ownership of files and folders. If i extract tarball as root, files and directories will have ownership of user who made tarball. if that dir exists, it will just change permissions and ownership - that was my case.

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