From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Cc: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: File permission issue in recent tarballs?
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:39:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0D87D0.2040606@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimKEpjvDYgsT2w4SD4g+Ucnw3w3AQ@mail.gmail.com>
> The files in the current (1.11.3) tarball are not owner-writeable.
>
> Read-only files make it difficult for things like package management
> software to edit the installation prefix, apply patches, etc.
>
> The change appears to have occurred between 1.10.9 and 1.11.1. Here
> are a couple of excerpts from freshly untarred directory listings:
>
> [jacknagel@yonah mdocml-1.10.9]$ ls -la
> ...
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 9560 Jan 7 09:07 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1141 Jan 7 09:07 arch.c
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1868 Jan 7 09:07 arch.in
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1138 Jan 7 09:07 att.c
>
>
> [jacknagel@yonah mdocml-1.11.1]$ ls -la
> ...
> -r--r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 8649 Apr 4 17:07 Makefile
> -r--r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1159 Apr 4 17:07 arch.c
> -r--r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1868 Apr 4 17:07 arch.in
> -r--r--r--@ 1 jacknagel staff 1156 Apr 4 17:07 att.c
>
> Thanks.
Hi Jack,
I'm ambivalent to this (the change was in 1.319, with the Makefile
re-write), so can patch for the next release. Any objections from
downstream before I do so?
Kristaps
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