Subject: making permission/ownership retention consistent
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
Date: 2006-07-05 06:20:44 GMT (2 years, 52 weeks, 16 hours and 26 minutes ago)
when merging things from ${D} to ${ROOT}, portage currently will make sure
that the permissions in ${D} for files are retained after merging into
${ROOT}, but not for directories
for example, consider an ebuild that:
- creates dir /usr/share/foo with foo:foo ownership and 777 permissions
- creates file /usr/share/foo/bar with foo:foo ownership and 777 permissions
now the user goes in and runs:
chmod -R 700 /usr/share/foo
chown -R 0:0 /usr/share/foo
then the user goes and re-emerges the aforementioned ebuild ... then end
result ? the directory /usr/share/foo will still be 0:0 ownership with 700
permissions yet the file /usr/share/foo/bar will be reset to foo:foo
ownership and 777 permissions
personally i think that we should be retaining the permissions of the file as
is instead of resetting it, but i wont fight too hard in either direction ...
we just need the behavior to be consistent
-mike