umask package policy

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Sun May 22 22:20:53 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:13 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> 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?

Or force the use of %{_install} if you're going to install files by
hand, as you then specify the permissions they should be.

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