From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Antoine Amarilli <a3nm@a3nm.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Bug?: manpages are only readable by root when doing sudo make install with umask 077
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:45:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2o9m1v6ox.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110182959.nci4wukse5y4yvot@zeta>
On Wed, Jan 10 2018, Antoine Amarilli wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:23:03AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On Wed 2018-01-10 16:38:14 +0100, Antoine Amarilli wrote:
>> how is the installation happening for you? In Makefile.local, i see:
>>
>> install -m0644 $(filter %.1.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man1
>> install -m0644 $(filter %.5.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man5
>> install -m0644 $(filter %.7.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man7
>>
>> which suggests that the -m would override the umask.
>
> That's right. Looking more closely I think the issue is only with the
> permissions of the directories /usr/local/share/man/man*, not the files
> that they contain. Of course this is still an obstacle for the manpages
> to be readable. So I guess the following in doc/Makefile.local (just
> above what you quoted):
>
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1"
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man5"
> mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man7"
>
> does not override the umask. I suspect that the parameter -m0644 should
> be passed to these invocations too.
If user has set umask to 077, should we override that (as we're now doing
with the files by giving explicit permissions) ?
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Antoine Amarilli
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 15:38 Bug?: manpages are only readable by root when doing sudo make install with umask 077 Antoine Amarilli
2018-01-10 16:23 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-01-10 18:29 ` Antoine Amarilli
2018-01-10 19:45 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2018-01-10 20:41 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-01-10 20:40 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-01-31 20:31 ` Antoine Amarilli
2018-01-31 20:50 ` [PATCH] doc: create manpage folders with right permissions Antoine Amarilli
2018-01-31 20:56 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-02-01 11:22 ` David Bremner
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