[arch-dev-public] wrong permission to packages

[Ionut Biru]

On 03/09/2010 10:04 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ionut Biru<biru.ionut at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> The cron job shouldn't do this; the dbscripts should, right? If we
>> just got the permissions right there we wouldn't need the cron job at
>> all actually.
>
> Yeah, the dbscripts actually DO cover this case. The cron job is there
> because people sometimes manually move files around.
>
> Are people regularly manually moving files? If so it's important to
> make sure you chmod the files for other users

really don't know but the permission was 620 and i should ask what was 
the workflow.

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Ionut