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Re: [Issue 2558] Bad permissions in dist tarball

From: Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:41:10 +0100

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM, <maxb_at_tigris.org> wrote:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2558
>>
>> ------- 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.

Aargh! My pax doesn't have those!

I guess your distro has GNU pax whilst Debian/Ubuntu ship OpenBSD pax.

:-(

Max.

Received on 2008-06-08 09:41:32 CEST

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