Re: PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT=destdir problem?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 2019-09-03 15:34, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:07:05PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > Is this something the package needs to fix, or has the destdir support
> > bit-rotted?
>
> It was always kind of a hack to limit the amount of work necessary for
> the packager. Handling unreadable files wasn't on the list.

Well, the funny thing is that the destdir framework is used to set file 
permissions such that the regular user cannot read (or package) the file.

Unless news/inn does something very wrong, this case requires at least 
the option to package the file with the same credentials as the install.

Cheerio,
hauke

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