Release tarball contains directories with 777 permissions
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Key: COUCHDB-314
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-314
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Build System
Affects Versions: 0.9
Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 fully updated
Reporter: Nils Breunese
Priority: Minor
I unpacked the release tarball on Ubuntu 8.10 and Mac OS X 10.5.6 using the
following tar mantra, which produces the desired result:
$ tar zxvf apache-couchdb-0.9.0.tar.gz
However, when running this command on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 all
resulting directories have 777 permissions.
Inspecting the tarball showed that the directories inside the tarball indeed
have 777 permissions. Apparently Red Hat's tar is applying the
-p/--preserve-permissions flag automatically, while this doesn't happen on
Ubuntu and Mac OS X. That's why the directories look normal on Ubuntu and Mac
OS X, as in that case the default umask is applied, which is generally set to
0022 and therefor yields 755 permissions for directories.
I generally don't like having 777 directories on my system, especially when it
serves no purpose, so could the release tarball maybe be altered to just have
'normal' directories with 755 permissions?
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