Hello, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I'm trying to package a specific version of libgit2, fetched from a git > repo. I noticed that when cloned in /gnu/store/xxx-git-checkout, all > files have 444 permissions, because /gnu/store is mounted read-only I guess. > > The problem is when /gnu/store/xxx-git-checkout/tests/resources/ are > copied to /tmp and tests are run, they fail when trying to write on read > only files. > > Any idea on how to overcome this issue and preserve file permissions on > git fetched packages ? I think you just have to “chmod -R +w” those files. I was looking for examples of packages that use ‘git-fetch’ and that do that, but I couldn’t easily find one. I suppose that’s what they do when they have to, though. HTH! Ludo’.
