Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] making permission/ownership retention consistent

[Paul Varner]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 02:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
 personally i think that we should be retaining the permissions of the file as 
 is instead of resetting it, but i wont fight too hard in either direction ... 
 we just need the behavior to be consistent

I agree with retaining permissions of an already existing
directory/file.  Nothing I hate more as a system admin is having to
double check permissions when reinstalling software.

Regards,
Paul
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[gentoo-portage-dev] making permission/ownership retention consistent

[Mike Frysinger]

when merging things from ${D} to ${ROOT}, portage currently will make sure 
that the permissions in ${D} for files are retained after merging into 
${ROOT}, but not for directories

for example, consider an ebuild that:
 - creates dir /usr/share/foo with foo:foo ownership and 777 permissions
 - creates file /usr/share/foo/bar with foo:foo ownership and 777 permissions

now the user goes in and runs:
 chmod -R 700 /usr/share/foo
 chown -R 0:0 /usr/share/foo

then the user goes and re-emerges the aforementioned ebuild ... then end 
result ?  the directory /usr/share/foo will still be 0:0 ownership with 700 
permissions yet the file /usr/share/foo/bar will be reset to foo:foo 
ownership and 777 permissions

personally i think that we should be retaining the permissions of the file as 
is instead of resetting it, but i wont fight too hard in either direction ... 
we just need the behavior to be consistent
-mike


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