HEADSUP maintainers: Packages install scripts without execute permissions

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 23 12:45:00 GMT 2009


On Jun 22 22:06, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> So I created a list of packages which install scripts into
>> /etc/preremove, /etc/postinstall, and /usr/bin without setting execute
>> permissions on them.  Please guys, fix the permissions ASAP.
>>
>> [...]
>> Christian Franke:
>>
>>   ddrescue:			etc/postinstall/ddrescue.sh
>>
>>   
>
> Hi Corinna,
>
> The postinstall script is only present in the [prev] release  
> ddrescue-1.8-1 but not in ddrescue-1.9-1. If the script is considered a  
> problem for Cygwin 1.7, I would suggest to simply remove 1.8-1 from  
> release-2/ddrescue.

Uh, my fault, sorry.  I looked through the hits and planned to report
only those packages in which the latest version is affected.  I'm not
that concerned about older versions.


Thanks,
Corinna

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