On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:28:23PM -0400, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote: > > when trying to run rsync to transfer the whole fink installation (under > /sw) froma PB to an iMac, I have seen there are a few files or > directories under certain packages that may result unreadable, at least > to an unpriviledged user.
There are *very* few cases where directories should be other than 755 and files 755 or 644, owner=root, group=admin (or wheel). The only exceptions might be database or lockfile areas, files for services that run as a special user (daemon, mysql, ssh, etc.), and files that are created by programs (rather than installed as part of a package). This last catagory is beyond fink's control, but other situations sound like problems in their respective fink packages. Perhaps 'fink validate' should warn about these? You can use 'dpkg -S /sw/whatever/path/to/file' to learn what package installed a given file. Assuming you have that package up-to-date, try contacting the package's maintainer. I've seen this happen in two situations: where the package installs files using a method that does not over-ride a umask set in some config file, and where the package installs files such that permissions from the source tarball get carried over. Both are fixable by the package maintainer. The second might be handled by fink itself. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
