Devel::CheckOS support for MirOS BSD

2008-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
Before I upload it to the CPAN, could I ask if someone using MirOS BSD could check that this release candidate detects it correctly? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/private/Devel-CheckOS-1.44.tar.gz It should detect it as: MirOSBSD Unix OSFeatures::POSIXShellRedirection -- David Cantrell

Re: Devel::CheckOS support for MirOS BSD

2008-09-29 Thread Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Before I upload it to the CPAN, could I ask if someone using MirOS BSD > could check that this release candidate detects it correctly? > > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/private/Devel-CheckOS-1.44.tar.gz > > It should detect it a

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Cosimo Streppone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 02:10]: >> but it seems that gnu tar doesn't like the following: >> >> $ tar --mode=0755 cvf blah.tar somedir >> $ tar c --mode=0755 vf blah.tar somedir >> >> and will only accept: >> >> $ tar cvf blah.tar --mode=

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 14:50]: > MakeMaker can set a minimum umask if it wants to play security > nanny On Windows? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:14:10PM +0200, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > Could this work? No, because --mode is a GNUism. If you make that the default then it will break for everyone who doesn't use GNU tar. Having EU::MM try to use that flag when it's supported is a good idea though. Probably bett

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 14:50]: >> MakeMaker can set a minimum umask if it wants to play security >> nanny > > On Windows? Windows, as always, is a "special" case. If a work around is necessary for Windows that's fine. -- Hating the web

Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

2008-09-29 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:40:09 +0200, "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> And so I have implemented it now. If it breaks too much in too short >> time, we could probably revert it, but first I'd like to see how bad >> we really do. > I agree to this (first) solution; thi

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 16:35]: > Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 14:50]: > >> MakeMaker can set a minimum umask if it wants to play > >> security nanny > > > > On Windows? > > Windows, as always, is a "special" case.

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 16:35]: >> Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: >>> * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 14:50]: MakeMaker can set a minimum umask if it wants to play security nanny >>> On Windows? >> Windows, as always