[arch-dev-public] wrong permission to packages

Ionut Biru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 19:23:04 CET 2010


On 03/09/2010 08:22 PM, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Tue 09 Mar 2010 19:06 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> can you change the permission of the file?
>> i really don't know why it has such a permission. I know that we have
>> a cron that fixes the permission but that package was upload
>> yesterday and still has it wrong.
>>
>> Can you check if the cron is running?
>
> Yeah it's running.
>
> The cron script only specifies g+w so it could still remain unreadable
> I'm not sure what the policy should be exactly, so maybe you can bring
> that up on the ML but I've made that file world readable.
>

this is the second time when this happen and to be fair i don't know 
why. The cron has:

/bin/chmod -R g+w $d/os/{any,i686,x86_64}

maybe is better if we change it do chmod 664 by default?


-- 
Ionut


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