Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: feature request: 'tla chmod' which 'touch'es files

[Robin Farine]

On Sunday 26 September 2004 07.40, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> writes:

> > Permissions must be version controlled.
>
> Not by arch (other than maybe +x).

I agree. Deployment tools do a better job at handling permissions, 
ownerships, ACLs, capabilities ., they know this kind of details 
about the target OS; the version control tool does not.

Aside from simplifying the code, dropping the permission thing 
completely from Arch allows read-only revlibs which as people 
mentioned is good for hard-linked trees. When required, permissions 
such as 'x' can be set from a hook, invoked at the end of each 
tree-modifying command, based on information stored in the tree.

Robin