Anyone have a chance to look into this?  Thoughts on any drawbacks to 
stripping the directories from the list of files?

--Eric

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Subject: [rt.cpan.org #39804] Archive::Tar change required (related to 
the recent world-writable files issue)
Date: Friday 03 October 2008
From: "Burak Gursoy via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39804 >

> ...
> here is the problem. Archive::Tar generates the "files" with correct 
> permissions, but makes "directories" 777 for some reason. 
> ...
> It looks like removing directories from the list of files fixes this 
> issue: 

> on line 3704 of Module/Build/Base.pm:

>  Archive::Tar->create_archive("$file.tar.gz", 1, 
>    grep { !-d $_ } @$files);

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