Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed (original) (raw)

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From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:39:22 +0100

Gilles Espinasse wrote: ...

> [chroot-i486] root:/$ umask > 0022 > [chroot-i486] root:/$ rm -rf /usr/src/coreutils* > [chroot-i486] root:/$ cd /usr/src > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld /usr /usr/src /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 ... > drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 > > don't know why

Just the side effect of using tar as root --no-same-permissions let umask be applied

Thanks for explaining. That's another good reason to do less as root.