[Savannah-hackers] Re: some project repositories may need chmod g+s [Re: .../coreutils owned by root?

[Mathieu Roy]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jim Meyering <address@hidden> said:
> >
> >> FYI, my nightly rsync (uploading files to savannah) failed because the
> >> ownership of /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils was changed from `meyering'
> >> to `root'.
> >>
> >> I've just renamed that to `root-owned' and restored a copy owned by me.
> >> In case you want to examine that directory, I'm leaving it for 24 hours,
> >> after which it'll be removed.
> >
> > No problem.
> >
> > I moved lot of data between the hard disk without using appropriately
> > -p.
> > It should have no consequences, since the group ownership is correctly
> > set for every files. But maybe it brokes rsync on file upload in the
> > CVS.
> > (for CVS, no trouble)
> 
> If the other CVS repositories are like that of coreutils, then you
> should run `chmod g+s ...' on them.  Otherwise, when someone cvs-adds a
> new directory, its permissions will be incorrect.  As a test, I've just
> `cvs add'ed coreutils/man/test and then checked the permissions of the
> resulting new directory in the repository:
> 
>   subversions$ ls -ld test
>      4 drwxrwsr-x    2 meyering nogroup      4096 Sep 18 04:47 test/
> 
> Note the `nogroup'.
> 
> Now that I've run `chmod -R g+s /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils', such
> a directory would be created with group `coreutil'.  In the case of
> coreutils, it doesn't matter, since I'm the only one who modifies the
> repository, but for projects with more than one person doing commits,
> it would cause trouble.

Thanks a lot for the input,

Regards,

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