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Re: permissions of files in dist tarball (was: stable coreutils-8.1 toda


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: permissions of files in dist tarball (was: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:17:10 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

Hello Alan, Jim,

* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:32:57PM CET:

Automake is following the GNU Coding Standards recommendation here,
which lists another reason ((standards.info)Releases):

    Make sure that the directory into which the distribution unpacks (as
 well as any subdirectories) are all world-writable (octal mode 777).
 This is so that old versions of `tar' which preserve the ownership and
 permissions of the files from the tar archive will be able to extract
 all the files even if the user is unprivileged.

Does anyone have a cite for what version, how old?

(sounds like mid 1980's, actually).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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