[pacman-dev] FS#7484 - pacman clobbers directory symlinks.

[Dan McGee]

On 7/12/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:47:43PM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> > On 7/12/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2. When extracting directories, we should compare the mode of the
> > existing and the mode of the one to be extracted, and probably spit a
> > warning if they are different so the user at least knows this could be
> > an issue. I am not sure which set of permissions to go with, however.
>
> What do you mean in that last sentence ?

Should we assume the directory permissions in the package being
installed are correct, or should we assume the permissions on the
user's filesystem are correct?

Package:
rw-r--r-- root root /foo
Filesystem:
rw-rw-r-- root fooey /foo

Which one do we go with?

-Dan