Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx Version 2.8.8pre.5 should copy files in share/lynx_doc/ with correct owners/permissions

[Rajeev V. Pillai]

On Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:49 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 08:11:31AM +0800, Rajeev V. Pillai wrote:
> > The source tarball does have the correct file permissions, but, when
> > extracting files, GNU tar will consider the user's current umask value
> > when setting a file's permissions instead of using only the mode-bits
> > in the tarball.
> 
> I did say "pristine": packagers as a rule work directly from the tarball,
> and the packaging systems generally (I don't know of exceptions) don't
> alter the permissions.

I'm not clear about what you mean by pristine in this context--I build
most of my binaries directly from the tarballs (in the usual manner):

1. Download source tarball.
2. Extract tarball.
3. ./configure ...
4. make
5. make install (as root)

My understanding is that unless steps 2-5 are executed as root (ie. not
only step 5.), the owner & permissions for share/lynx_doc/* will not be
set correctly. Are packaging systems run under a specific umask (0022, say)
and with a specific user like root?


> > Speaking of tarballs, lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar has a couple of extraneous
> > files:
> > -rw-r--r-- dickey/lynx?????? 0 2014-03-10 03:13 lynx2-8-8/test/nobody
> > -rw-r--r-- dickey/lynx?????? 0 2014-03-10 03:13 lynx2-8-8/test/X
> 
> those are intentional:
> 
> 2014-03-09 (2.8.8rel.2)
> * correct errata in test-files which cause broken links in break-out directory
>   in lynx.isc.org server -TD

Ah, I see! I was confused by the addition of 2 oddly named zero-length files
in lynx_doc/test/.


Thanks,
Rajeev