Re: [PATCH] builddeb: Fix packaged file permissions

[Frans Pop]

Added linux-kbuild to CC.

On Friday 04 September 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The packaged files' permissions are implicitly dependent on the
> current umask.  Not only can this result in surprisingly restrictive
> permissions, but dpkg-deb will fail if the DEBIAN directory does not
> have permissions 755 or 775.  Therefore, set the umask to 022 before
> building a package.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  scripts/package/builddeb |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index 8b357b0..24cfd80 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
>
>  set -e
>
> +umask 022
> +
>  create_package() {
>  	local pname="$1" pdir="$2"
> 
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