Sounds good to me.  Far from a tar expert I am though.

 -Ken

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Anyone have a chance to look into this?  Thoughts on any drawbacks to
> stripping the directories from the list of files?
>
> --Eric
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message:  ----------
>
> Subject: [rt.cpan.org #39804] Archive::Tar change required (related to
> the recent world-writable files issue)
> Date: Friday 03 October 2008
> From: "Burak Gursoy via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>  Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39804 >
>
>> ...
>> here is the problem. Archive::Tar generates the "files" with correct
>> permissions, but makes "directories" 777 for some reason.
>> ...
>> It looks like removing directories from the list of files fixes this
>> issue:
>
>> on line 3704 of Module/Build/Base.pm:
>
>>  Archive::Tar->create_archive("$file.tar.gz", 1,
>>    grep { !-d $_ } @$files);
>

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