På Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:05:51 +0200, skrev Michael G Schwern
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
[...]
The idea was to relieve Windows users from having to hack their tar
before they
can use EU::MM to bake distros that the CPAN indexer will not
reject.
Allow me to clarify.
On Monday 29 September 2008, 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:
* On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Cosimo Streppone wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't know if I really understand the entire
> "world-writable files" security hole.
>
> Anyway, I think the average CPAN author doesn't
> really know or care about that, sadly.
> See also
FWIW, this is true. I have never thought about it
