On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:53:23 -0400 Caleb Cushing <xenoterrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > of course this leads to the problem... what if the 'admin' explicitly > changed the permissions... Maybe we should have something like > PERMS_PROTECT (similar to config_protect). where portage won't update > the permissions if file/directory is protected.
The package manager shouldn't be messing with permissions on existing directories at all (directories are a shared resource). If you want to change permissions on an existing directory, do it in pkg_preinst. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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