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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: git-fetch origin output is read-only - and reproducibility
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:49:48 +0200
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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 w=
hat
> the build systems do by default?

I think this would be good.  It=E2=80=99s a little annoying when switching =
from
a tarball to git-fetch because you=E2=80=99ll have to add a phase that make=
s 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=E2=80=99t know if that=E2=80=99s safe to do.  Are other fetch methods=
 affected as
well?  hg-fetch or svn-fetch, for example?

--=20
Ricardo