Re: proposal: with-file-writeable

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, the keep it this way. Another question, this came up, as
> I was trying to find a nice solution to reset-gzip-timestamps failing.
> I got different pieces of advice if I should reset the permissions after
> resetting the timestamp, but I'm still not sure. It seems that the easiest
> way to this would be to just add a call to make-file-writable to the phase
> at the beginning, as we finally end up with a read-only one in the store
> anyway. I feel that reseting the permissions is unneccesary additional
> complexity. WDYT?

In the "strip" phase we already call "make-file-writeable"
unconditionally, so doing it in reset-gzip-permissions as well should be
okay I think.

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