Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild execute permissions: problem with cvs

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:52, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:39:28PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There's a problem (at least on my machine) with some ebuilds. They have
> > some or all execute permissions set. Examples are skel.build, all but one
> > of the sys-kernel/linux/linux-* ebuilds, and about 50 others.
> >
> > I tried disabling execute permissions on skel.build. cvs wouldn't
> > recognize it as a new revision, so I also removed a dot from the end of a
> > sentence in the file. When I commited and re-updated, it was executable
> > again.
> >
> > I don't know what's going on, but I think someone with cvs root access
> > should handle this.
>
> OK, I did some things to the CVS repository and now all ebuilds should
> *not* be executable.  I didn't want to do it to all files because I'm sure
> we have some executable scripts lying around somewhere and I don't want to
> mess them up.  This problem may have been caused by a permissions mishap
> caused my me a couple of months ago.
>

Everything's OK now. Only cvs still doesn't see permission differences as 
different revisions, so I'll have to delete and re-checkout all ebuilds. But 
that's a minor point. Thanks!


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel