You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com> on 2008/06/07 20:42:47 UTC
Re: [Issue 2558] Bad permissions in dist tarball
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM, <ma...@tigris.org> wrote:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2558
>
>
>
> User maxb changed the following:
>
> What |Old value |New value
> ================================================================================
> Target milestone|--- |1.6
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ------- Additional comments from maxb@tigris.org Sat Jun 7 09:13:48 -0700 2008 -------
> The 1.4.5 tarball had normal permissions, except that the directory sgid bit was
> set.
>
> The 1.4.6 and 1.5.0-rc9 tarballs have completely normal permissions so I think
> we're fine for now.
>
> It might be worth modifying dist.sh so that however bizarre the RMs environment,
> the permissions are consistent. For example:
>
> tar --owner root --group root --mode 'u+rw-s,go+r-ws,-t'
Actually, looking at the pax man file, I saw pax has a few options
which could do mostly the same:
--gid, --uid, --chmod,
possibly there are more.
That way, possibly, we could keep using pax.
Bye,
Erik.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Re: [Issue 2558] Bad permissions in dist tarball
Posted by Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>.
Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM, <ma...@tigris.org> wrote:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2558
>>
>> ------- Additional comments from maxb@tigris.org Sat Jun 7 09:13:48 -0700 2008 -------
>> The 1.4.5 tarball had normal permissions, except that the directory sgid bit was
>> set.
>>
>> The 1.4.6 and 1.5.0-rc9 tarballs have completely normal permissions so I think
>> we're fine for now.
>>
>> It might be worth modifying dist.sh so that however bizarre the RMs environment,
>> the permissions are consistent. For example:
>>
>> tar --owner root --group root --mode 'u+rw-s,go+r-ws,-t'
>
> Actually, looking at the pax man file, I saw pax has a few options
> which could do mostly the same:
>
> --gid, --uid, --chmod,
>
> possibly there are more.
>
> That way, possibly, we could keep using pax.
Aargh! My pax doesn't have those!
I guess your distro has GNU pax whilst Debian/Ubuntu ship OpenBSD pax.
:-(
Max.