Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis: > Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Ok, the keep it this way. Another question, this came up, as >> I was trying to find a nice solution to reset-gzip-timestamps failing. >> I got different pieces of advice if I should reset the permissions after >> resetting the timestamp, but I'm still not sure. It seems that the easiest >> way to this would be to just add a call to make-file-writable to the phase >> at the beginning, as we finally end up with a read-only one in the store >> anyway. I feel that reseting the permissions is unneccesary additional >> complexity. WDYT? > > In the "strip" phase we already call "make-file-writeable" > unconditionally, so doing it in reset-gzip-permissions as well should be > okay I think.
Right, especially if this affects a number of packages already. Ludo’.