Re: texinfo 5.2 dist creates directories that are 777

2013-11-15 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Andreas Schwab ha escrit: > > $ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz > > You explicitly told tar to ignore umask. No surprise. No surprise, indeed. What actually surprises me is why the tarball itself contains such unreasonably permissive file modes. I guess that's what the or

Re: texinfo 5.2 dist creates directories that are 777

2013-11-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
Aharon Robbins writes: > Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04: > > $ umask 022 > $ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz You explicitly told tar to ignore umask. No surprise. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D5

Re: texinfo 5.2 dist creates directories that are 777

2013-11-15 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi Karl. > Is it a bug or a feature that the Texinfo 5.2 tarball extracts with > directories being world writable? > > Feature. Well, at least it's intentional. > > Anyone who cares should set umask before unpacking, as usual. > Seems to me. Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04: