Feature changed by: Uwe Gansert (ug) Feature #305313, revision 11 Title: creating nonexistent directories with Autoyast openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Uwe Gansert (ug) Description: from bug #429491 It should be possible to create directories just like files with its permissions and ownership. Today it is impossible (using just "files") to put for example /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. To anticipate possible comments, the "file_script" is not IMHO the right way to deal with the problem since it is invoked after writing the file to a filesystem. Yet it may be considered a workaround as of today. Discussion: #1: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2009-01-23 14:19:55) up for Engineering's comment. Is workaround adequate ? #2: Milisav Radmanic (radmanic) (2009-04-16 14:06:01) The workaround is effective but technically not adequate. We should support creating directories like we do it for files. The request is off the mailinglist and makes sense. #3: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2009-05-28 16:41:02) Isn't it better to have support for untarring root.tar.gz to the filesystem like kiwi does? + #4: Uwe Gansert (ug) (2009-06-04 15:37:40) (reply to #3) + the idea of untaring a tgz is actually not that bad but in this case + I'd prefer to keep it simple. A tgz needs to be stored in base64 format + inside of the XML and it's not obvious what's in it by looking at the + XML file. Changing something in that is a bit complex too, compared to + simply use a text editor and change the XML file. People who need to + add so many files/dirs that it's too much for the "files" section can + do that with a tgz+scripts combination already. For smaller changes + (which is enough for many customers from my experience) the clearly + represented "files" section is better I think because you can see + immediately what happens just by looking at the XML file. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305313