On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:24:52PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On 9/8/07, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
so please change this to solve this issue of overwriting packages.txt.
This was actually not the issue. cactus and I tracked it down today, with a hint from simo (thanks again).
There is a cronjob that cleans up permissions on /home/ftp - it used to run on the following dirs: 0.8 extra unstable testing community
So, a while back when we made 'current' a real dir, and got rid of the versioned symlinks, it broke the current repo. The problem followed to the core repo.
It should be fixed now.
Hopefully, a db script rewrite will be coming soon, and we can do away with issues like this. If not, I will make sure this is documented somewhere for future reference. For now this email is informational, so we all know that the permissions are kept in check by a cron job.
Most of these directories I also added acls to. I will do that to the new ones now. In theory this should make the cron job unnecessary, but we'd left it on before too. Jason