Re: www/serf install permissions fix

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:06:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:
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> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:23:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> 
> >> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> >> I think the real problem is that the Mac tar is broken and we need to
> >> >> avoid using it.
> >> >
> >> > I haven't seen anything in this thread to suggest that.
> >> 
> >> The mac tar program creates files with mode 666 when run as root, even
> >> without the p option.  While tar specs are fuzzy, that seems wrong.
> >
> > No, it isn't. It has been the specified behavior of tar since forever.
> 
> You didn't answer the last question.  Do you have an opinion about what
> should be done?

Just run chmod og-w in post-extract. There are other cases like that in
the tree.

Joerg