rpms/gnumeric/FC-4 gnumeric.spec,1.3,1.4

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Oct 26 16:38:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:34 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> 
> Unowned directories from packages get dumped to the filesystem with
> permissions that depend on umask.  With a 0077 umask which isn't that
> rare for root (it's even the default in some distros), it means
> 0700,root,root and likelihood of such operation conflicts is increased.
> How much and how bad, depends on what dirs and how they're being used.
> 

I suppose that's a concern, but it doesn't really matter here because
the files are useless without mc, and when mc is installed - the
permissions on the directory would be set by mc.




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