On Mon, June 22, 2009 10:43 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 20 12:59, Mark Harig wrote: >> >> The two files 'base-files-mketc.sh' and 'base-files-profiles.sh' >> included >> in the 'base-files' package have their permissions set to 644 while all >> other scripts in /etc/postinstall/ have their permissions set to 755. >> >> Is this a side-effect of 'base-files-profiles.sh' not completing without >> errors, or is this set in the packaging? >> >> (Technically, the files with the permission problems are >> /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done and >> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profiles.sh.done.) > > Technically it's a packaging bug. The scripts should have execute > permissions like all the shell scripts in /etc/postinstall and > /etc/preremove. > > John, I fixed that on Sourceware and created a 3.8-4 package with > execute permissions for postinstall and preremove scripts. > > It shouldn't affect postinstall, though. When calling `bash -c script', > then bash runs these scripts as long as the user has read permissions > on Cygwin. Which is actually kind of a bug in Cygwin. I've put that > on my TODO list.
Thanks, I'll change my 'source' version. I probably changed the permissions higher up with recursion and, since setup never complained, never noticed. J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
