Cygwin 1.7: Possible file permission errors in 'base-files'

[John Morrison]

On Mon, June 22, 2009 10:43 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 20 12:59, Mark Harig wrote:
>>
>> The two files 'base-files-mketc.sh' and 'base-files-profiles.sh'
>> included
>> in the 'base-files' package have their permissions set to 644 while all
>> other scripts in /etc/postinstall/ have their permissions set to 755.
>>
>> Is this a side-effect of 'base-files-profiles.sh' not completing without
>> errors, or is this set in the packaging?
>>
>> (Technically, the files with the permission problems are
>> /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done and
>> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profiles.sh.done.)
>
> Technically it's a packaging bug.  The scripts should have execute
> permissions like all the shell scripts in /etc/postinstall and
> /etc/preremove.
>
> John, I fixed that on Sourceware and created a 3.8-4 package with
> execute permissions for postinstall and preremove scripts.
>
> It shouldn't affect postinstall, though.  When calling `bash -c script',
> then bash runs these scripts as long as the user has read permissions
> on Cygwin.  Which is actually kind of a bug in Cygwin.  I've put that
> on my TODO list.

Thanks, I'll change my 'source' version.  I probably changed the
permissions higher up with recursion and, since setup never complained,
never noticed.

J.


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