X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:36:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible file permission errors in 'base-files' Message-ID: <20090622143616.GD13645@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4A3D1570 DOT 5020506 AT aim DOT com> <20090622094310 DOT GN5039 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090622094310.GN5039@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:43:10AM +0200, 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. Sounds like we should drop the "-c". cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple