On Jan 2, 2008 10:33 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 4:39 AM, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > i've taken a stab at a first draft of documenting release distribution > > > (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#release-distribution) > > > > I was just wondering about the write permissions for > > all files. Surely the release artifacts should never > > be modified, as mentioned in later sections. So it > > would be sufficient to keep those read-only, as long > > as there is write permission on the directory to remove > > them? > > AIUI yes > > the advantage of using the permissions suggested is that it's very > easy for people to get right. it's irratating when someone tries to > use directory permissions and gets it wrong since root is required to > fix them.
anyone with more BSD-foo want to jump in and off to patch? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
