On Dec 6, 2007 7:35 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan@hotmail.com> wrote:
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? -Dan