umask package policy

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun May 22 22:13:39 UTC 2005


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73893
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136030

Should we make it a packaging policy that packages must own all 
directories and files that it installs in order to avoid umask 077 
problems like this where the installed software is effectively broken?

Also the latter bug is %post creates files with umask 077, leading to 
similar breakage.  Should then the rule be "use umask within %post if it 
creates files?"

Can rpmdiff check for this in the future?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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