Trying to figure out some umask issues

[Mike McLean]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I do a large number of local mock builds as a part of the package
> reviews that I do, and one problem I consistently run into is
> executables and .so files coming out with mode 775, but a scratch
> build in Fedora's koji instance showing the expected 755 permissions.
> 
> I thought it might be some local environment leaking into my mock
> builds, but my personal umask is 022 which should be OK and changing
> it doesn't alter the result anyway.
> 
> Init'ing a fresh chroot shows the default umask in it is 0002, which
> would seem to explain things but wouldn't explain why the Fedora
> buildsys has different results.  Is there customization done there to
> force the umask somehow?

I believe the umask needs to be 002 in order for users in the mock group 
to be able to use mock effectively.

Regardless, if this is affecting your rpms, then your specs are probably 
broken. Use %defattr in all %files sections.