Re: Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #40976] New files installed without user-write permission
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:34:09 +0100, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Can anyone help me out with this? Is this EUI's fault or something > else? Is anything to do with this permission issue that we have been > discussing? For the record: Unix has three types of permissions, "user", "group", and "other". This ticket seems to complain about "user" permissions. Last week's long winded permission debate was about "other" permissions, so two different things. I seem to recall that in the MakeMaker community the consensus always was that installing writable is a nono. That would allow to reject the ticket. But what the last sentence is probably saying is that 1.44 was broken and nobody detected it. That would mean, tests and/or specs are missing. In any case, rest assured, that PAUSE has not changed and has not altered any bit of the distribution. -- andreas
Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #40976] New files installed without user-write permission
Can anyone help me out with this? Is this EUI's fault or something else? Is anything to do with this permission issue that we have been discussing? Cheers, yves -- Forwarded message -- From: Guillaume Rousse via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/16 Subject: [rt.cpan.org #40976] New files installed without user-write permission To: undisclosed-recipients Sun Nov 16 13:41:21 2008: Request 40976 was acted upon. Transaction: Ticket created by GROUSSE Queue: ExtUtils-Install Subject: New files installed without user-write permission Broken in: 1.52 Severity: Normal Owner: Nobody Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: new Ticket http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40976 > All new files installed through ExtUtils::MakeMaker-generated makefiles are installed without user-writable permission bit set. As a consequence, all attempt to modify them during installation with a non-privilegiated user (typically, package building) fails. PDL installation is a good example: couldn't open /home/guillomovitch/cooker/perl-PDL/BUILDROOT/perl-PDL-2.4.4/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Index.pod at Doc/scantree.pl line 44. [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl-PDL]$ ll /home/guillomovitch/cooker/perl-PDL/BUILDROOT/perl-PDL-2.4.4/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Index.pod -r--r--r-- 1 guillomovitch users 10763 2008-11-16 19:23 /home/guillomovitch/cooker/perl-PDL/BUILDROOT/perl-PDL-2.4.4/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Index.pod Removing 1.52 version, so as to use perl-5.10 provided 1.44 version, fix the issue. -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
