[issue5300] distutils ignores file permissions

Garrett Cooper added the comment: The whole permissions setting operation seems a bit convoluted. I was hoping there was something formalized with install_data.py where I could specify a default or fine-grained user/group/mode for files, but it doesn't appear to be possible. I'll investigate a

[issue5300] distutils ignores file permissions

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[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

Éric Araujo added the comment: FTR it looks like http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-January/1188084.html was the original report for this. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

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[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

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[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

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[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

George Sakkis added the comment: > what is your use case of having executable file here ? > > I'd use the 'scripts' metadata for that ? For one thing they are external binaries, not python scripts, and second they are used internally only (through Subprocess), they are not supposed to be called

[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: > I believe that the default behavior should be changed to preserve > all permissions, with the possible exception of setting u+w. > Even that might be unnecessary; AFAIK to delete a file you need > write permissions only to its parent directory, not to the > f

[issue5300] Distutils ignores file permissions

New submission from George Sakkis : Distutils ignores file permissions when copying modules and package_data files to the build directory, and consequently to the installation directory too. According to an XXX comment at distutils/command/build_py.py, this is deliberate so that the built files a