On 1/8/26 15:21, [email protected] wrote:
Hi, What are the guidelines for file and folder permissions in the compressed archives used in deken ?
they should be read/writeable by the user, and at most readable by groups/others.
this is my personal opinion (and not some formally agreed upon "guideline")files should never be installed as world-writeable, as this is simply a huge security hole.
As a side question : how to force file/folders permission with deken command line utility ?
there's no flag or somesuch (and i don't really see a reason to add one; see above). but of course you could just invoke `chmod -R` after running `deken install`.
if you are talking about the other way (for creating packages with 'deken') then I also don't see a reason why to allow the user to specify permissions of the file. *however*, 'deken package' should make sure that the permissions are "correct" (that is: readable by the user). in the past I have seen deken archives that had "ugo-rwx" permissions (nobody is allowed to do anything). this is now handled by deken-plugin (when installing), but of course packages should have proper permissions in the first place.
>> I had trouble installing a package of abstraction (audiolab), specifically on plugdata (both Windows & OSX), but I also encoutered non-critical errors with puredata on windows 11.> I recreated an .dek archive using Windows compress menu, pulled it on the deken server and this resolved all troubles. > Here is a screenshot that shows the file and folder permissions in the .dek packages for audiolab(0.7.1) and for the modified version (audiolab_debug). > I'm looking for an explanation why the modified archive resolves the issue.
the data you have given is very vague.we only now that there is "trouble installing" and "non-critical errors". it's hard to come up with an "explanation" without more information.
if we have a better understanding of your actual problem, my opinion might change (honestly, I doubt it; but I do not understand your problem, so it's hard to tell)
gdasr IOhannes -- please do not CC me for list-emails
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