On March 28, 2004 01:41 pm, Marc Recht wrote:
> > I took that out on someone else's suggestion.  Anyone want to be a
> > tie-breaker  on this?  Python distutils is supposed to take care of this.
>
> distutils takes care of the ${PYSITELIB} stuff. I'm talking about about the
> documentation you're installing/copying into ${EPYDOCDIR} in the
> post-install target. ${PAX} creates ${EPYDOCDIR} while copying the files,
> but I'm not that sure if they get the correct owner and mode then.
> Therefore I suggested the seperate ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} step.

I just deleted and installed again and it sets the permissions fine.  I tried 
it with umask 027 and it warned me that my mask was wrong and crreated the 
files incorrectly.  However, adding that line didn't make it any better.

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