Install permissions broken

[guest]

-rwx------ 1 root root 103 2008-11-14 20:19 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.10.1*

And similarly for all files that I checked, no matter what I set for umask, which should be overridden by software instlals in any case.

That has been a problem with other Haskell software install lately as well, but not othe non-Haskell software.

[igloo]

Can you give us more details on how to reproduce this, please?

If, on Debian Linux/amd64, I install from the ghc-6.10.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-libedit2.tar.bz2 bindist from the download page with a umask of 022 then I get

-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 151 Nov 14 18:55 inst/bin/ghc-6.10.1

[igloo]

No reply in 4 months, so closing.

[Feuerbach]

I confirm that, if using umask 022, everything is ok. However if you use umask 077 then you will get permissions that OP showed.

I guess OP was confused by the fact that, if you change umask to 022 and redo ./configure && make install, it doesn't help. To solve the problem you need to set umask 022 before you untar the archive, so that files get right permissions from the beginning.

I agree with OP that permissions should be set correctly during installation no matter which umask user prefers, so let me reopen this ticket. (Note: just setting desired umask in the install script doesn't help for the reasons described above. In other words, installation should not make any assumption about files permissions apart from being able to read them.)

[Feuerbach]

BTW, I tested this with ghc-6.10.2-i386-unknown-linux-libedit2.tar.bz2 on Debian Lenny.

[igloo]

Let's look at this for 6.12.

[ray]

I use umask 077, and when I installed 6.10.3 from the .tar.bz2, all the permissions were set correctly, except on .hi files which were installed with mode 600.

[igloo]

Should all be fixed by:

Sun Aug  2 17:12:37 BST 2009  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
  * Fix permissions when installing