Permissions in externals

[miquecg]

Hi,

I've added font files to a .chezmoiexternal and now I'm getting this on the diff:

diff --git a/Library b/Library
old mode 40700
new mode 40755
diff --git a/Library/Fonts b/Library/Fonts
old mode 40700
new mode 40755

Fonts already exist on my system and folder permissions are OS defaults. Any idea or workaround to remove this discrepancy without changing folder permissions?

{{- $fontDir := "" }}
{{- if eq .chezmoi.os "darwin" }}
{{-   $fontDir = "Library/Fonts" }}
{{- else if eq .chezmoi.os "linux" }}
{{-   $fontDir = ".local/share/fonts" }}
{{- end }}
["{{ $fontDir }}/MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf"]
  type = "file"
  url = "https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf"
  refreshPeriod = "672h"
["{{ $fontDir }}/MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf"]
  type = "file"
  url = "https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf"
  refreshPeriod = "672h"
["{{ $fontDir }}/MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf"]
  type = "file"
  url = "https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf"
  refreshPeriod = "672h"
["{{ $fontDir }}/MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf"]
  type = "file"
  url = "https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf"
  refreshPeriod = "672h"

[twpayne]

This is occurring because the directories ~/Library and ~/Library/Fonts are implicitly created by .chezmoiexternal and implicitly created directories have default (i.e. non-private permissions).

The fix is to tell chezmoi to manage the directories explicitly. This can be done with:

$ chezmoi add --recursive=false ~/Library ~/Library/Fonts

You'll likely need to add .keep file to the directory in the source state, otherwise git will ignore it:

$ touch $(chezmoi source-path ~/Library/Fonts)/.keep

[miquecg]

Well, had to finally add those two folder manually.

❯ chezmoi add --recursive=false ~/Library ~/Library/Fonts
chezmoi: rename /Users/me/.local/share/chezmoi/Library/Fonts /Users/me/.local/share/chezmoi/Library/private_Fonts: no such file or directory

It also happened to me when trying to add a file in .oh-my-zsh/custom because it also is an implicitly managed folder by chezmoi. I found this was an issue for other people too so I followed advice there and commented out exact = true in .chezmoiexternal for OhMyZsh. But now looking at your own personal dotfiles I tried putting it back and adding exact_ in front of both folder names: exact_dot_oh-my-zsh/exact_custom, which works.

By the way, do I have to conditionally add Library/Fonts and .local/share/fonts to .chezmoiignore now that they need to be explicitly added?

[miquecg]

Thanks for this great tool 🙂

[twpayne]

By the way, do I have to conditionally add Library/Fonts and .local/share/fonts to .chezmoiignore now that they need to be explicitly added?

Yes. If you don't then they'll be automatically created on every machine.

[twpayne]

By the way, do I have to conditionally add Library/Fonts and .local/share/fonts to .chezmoiignore now that they need to be explicitly added?

This is only needed if you have other files in Library/Fonts/.local/share/fonts managed by chezmoi outside your .chezmoiexternal file. If they're only mentioned in your .chezmoiexternal then you don't need to add them to .chezmoiignore.