From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com (mail-fx0-f49.google.com [209.85.161.49]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p61Lnjh6021044 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:49:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fxd20 with SMTP id 20so2589118fxd.36 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:49:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5b8NCDmnD0q1HvaSJoby3UfGA7665uyJ122ZAoHM/Ns=; b=ZrOwsTTtfNl/hVtMWaha5Ao5lGcNOlaaN/pNUoBwHtexNlJfz9FKO/x4Rlc9viXKTz +6pV2zfO2qmYqIuhw5kcbOg+wbk3J0WdW/BVmxOpUY8a15wbm4JN8BjzcEYYbSmcCdB7 2/01rZr/718zioXpqcNyDvhcD78hBOvoxf0Pw= Received: by 10.223.68.22 with SMTP id t22mr1464690fai.145.1309556979119; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:49:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.86.197 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:49:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E0D87D0.2040606@bsd.lv> References: <4E0D87D0.2040606@bsd.lv> From: Jack Nagel Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:49:19 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: File permission issue in recent tarballs? To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sounds good. Thanks for the help. Jack On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote: >> 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--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 9560 Jan =A07 09:07 Makefile >> -rw-r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1141 Jan =A07 09:07 arch.c >> -rw-r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1868 Jan =A07 09:07 arch.in >> -rw-r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1138 Jan =A07 09:07 att.c >> >> >> [jacknagel@yonah mdocml-1.11.1]$ ls -la >> ... >> -r--r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 8649 Apr =A04 17:07 Makefile >> -r--r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1159 Apr =A04 17:07 arch.c >> -r--r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1868 Apr =A04 17:07 arch.in >> -r--r--r--@ =A01 jacknagel =A0staff =A0 1156 Apr =A04 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. =A0Any objections from > downstream before I do so? > > Kristaps > -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv