Hi Danny,
> currently, when using the git-fetch origin, the resulting source will have > all files read-only. Further phases trying to do reproducibility patches have > to manually chmod in order to be able to patch. > > Can we change that? For example change what this origin does or change what > the build systems do by default? I think this would be good. It’s a little annoying when switching from a tarball to git-fetch because you’ll have to add a phase that makes all files writable. This would probably have to be changed in the unpack phase of the gnu-build-system, which copies files recursively when the sources are a directory (instead of a tarball). I don’t know if that’s safe to do. Are other fetch methods affected as well? hg-fetch or svn-fetch, for example? -- Ricardo
