Dale Miller writes ("Incoming file permissions"): > I noticed that some but not all of the new packages > that get uploaded to the Incoming directory don't have > read permissions. Is there a reason for this? Are they > uploaded that way? I like to install the latest and > greatest as quick as possible. I know, that could be asking > for trouble but that's me. I am particularily interested > in the dmalloc package that just came out but couldn't > get it for the past couple of days. If there is a reason > why it is like that then no problem. I was jsut curious > why only part of the packages were uploaded that way.
The packages that come via my system are uploaded using rcp rather than anon-ftp, and so have more standard default permissions. Ian.