[pacman-dev] makepkg: only strip files that are writable

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

On 15/03/10 09:36, Dan McGee wrote:

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commit a4e3fd18474186ac81acca91adecbb905aee3357 Author: Allan McRae Date:   Tue Jan 26 23:29:31 2010 +1000

    makepkg: only strip files that are writable

    TODO: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-January/010390.html

    Signed-off-by: Allan McRae     Signed-off-by: Dan McGee

Hmmm.... that one was not quite finished yet which is why it was not on my working branch. (I put it on a wip = "work in progress" branch).

Nevermind!  Apart from a strange commit message, it is still an improvement on the pre-patch state.  :P

Looks like I never got to answer your mail. I wrote a stupid 10 lines bash program that tested every permission, and it seemed that both r and w were needed for strip. But IIRC, I did one test inside makepkg (so using fakeroot) and got different results. Actually I was probably so confused by the permissions I got in package built by makepkg that I completely gave up. Now I remember why I did not answer, I have only new confusions to bring...