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Re: [Issue 2558] Bad permissions in dist tarball

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:42:47 +0200

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM, <maxb_at_tigris.org> wrote:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2558
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> User maxb changed the following:
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> What |Old value |New value
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> Target milestone|--- |1.6
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> ------- Additional comments from maxb_at_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.

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