On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:13:53PM GMT, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:54:34AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > Moving to ports@ ...
> >
> > On 2015/03/10 11:32, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote:
> > > Hello Stuart,
> > >
> > > On Tue 10/03/2015 08:28, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > > Is this while building the port, or just installing from packages?
> > >
> > > Installing from packages. Isn't that expected?
> >
> > Not sure.
> >
> > So:
> >
> > 1. Database files in /var/db/pkg are affected by umask ("pkg_add moo" with
> > umask
> > 077, then you can't "pkg_info moo" as a normal user)
> >
> > 2. Normal installed files from the package are not affected by umask
> >
> > 3. @sample'd files with an explicit @mode are not affected by umask
> >
> > 4. @sample'd files *without* an explicit mode (e.g. normal files installed
> > in
> > /etc) are affected by umask
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 1 could be argued either way, but I think current behaviour is ok.
> >
> > 2 and 3 seem correct to me
> >
> > 4 is surprising to me. Marc, is that intentional?
>
> I kindof think 4 should be forbidden or default'd to something sane, indeed.
Hi Marc,
This bit me in the arse a year ago but I hadn't reported it as I was
fairly new to OpenBSD back then.
It would, indeed, be nice to have a sane default and able to use
'pkg_add' without issues - those that use, i.e. UMASK=077, that is :^)
Regards,
Raf
