[pacman-dev] Directory permission checking in makepkg

[Xavier]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:06:28AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 7:35 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at 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?
> 

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?