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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 74400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74400: 31.0.50; tramp-loaddefs.elc suddenly owned by root
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:54:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ldxfte12.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877c8z8u9r.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:09:20 +0100)

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de,  74400-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:09:20 +0100
> 
> My example doesn't claim to be the recipe which happened to Michael. But
> it shows, that 'sudo make install' could create root-owned files in the
> build dir, and that's what this bug report is about.
> 
> I don't know whether it is important enough to change something. But we
> should know (and document), that it could happen.

If it's important enough, maybe.

I think "make install" uses chmod to give everyone access to the file
because some files could be owned by root.  If that works, why is the
ownership important?





      reply	other threads:[~2024-11-19 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-17 16:17 bug#74400: 31.0.50; tramp-loaddefs.elc suddenly owned by root Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-17 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-17 17:02   ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-17 17:47     ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-17 18:23       ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-18  1:56         ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-18  8:37           ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-18 12:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-19  9:09               ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-19 15:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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