Re: [pacman-dev] Directory permission checking in makepkg

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:06:28AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:

On Dec 6, 2007 7:35 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi all,

I was looking at bug FS#5908 [1] which asks for directory permissions to be checked somewhere in order to stop screwing your system when installing a poorly made package (as directory permissions get overwritten when extracting packages).

This at first glance seems about a two line addition to the tidy_install function of makepkg. However, can anybody come up with a case where package directories shouldn't have 755 permissions? If so, I guess this would require either the addition of some option which would stop the directory permissions getting fixed (dirperm?) or just checking/fixing the permissions of a predetermined set of directories. If needed, which is preferable.

Pacman itself now does a good amount of permissions checking on install, and I believe it never overwrites an existing directory's permissions. Can anyone else verify this?

Apparently, you made pacman skip the dir extraction when it already existed. Reinstalling filesystem a few times confirm this (with -S or -Sf), I always get the following message: warning: directory permissions differ on proc/ filesystem: 555 package: 755 One question : does a bug need to be reported for each of these problems?