Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:46:34 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>, FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/print/ghostscript4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960801144006.15927C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <7118.838894645@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > They should! Over the weekend I installed 2.1.5-R and 82 megs of > > packages. With my fascist root umask, over half the ports were installed > > such that mear mortals could not use them. Quite annoying. > > find is your friend. :-) > > > Could bsd.port.mk set a "umask 022"??? > > Sigh....................................... > > It seems like every time this comes up, one half of the room screams > "It's NOT BROKEN, YOU CRETIN! IT'S *SUPPOSED* TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE > UMASK! WHAT IF I DON'T *WANT* MERE MORTALS TO USE A PACKAGE I'M > INSTALLING?!" and the other half then responds, with equally > gratuitous use of capital letters, "YES IT *IS* BROKEN, YOU FASCIST > BOFH ANAL-RETENTIVE TYPES! EASE OF USE! EASE OF USE! [chanting and > stomping]." > > Things then usually degenerate from there. I personally take the > position that if you want a nice umask, you should set a nice umask, > and this position also conventiently saves me the work of actually > changing anything. > How about the third way? Make a variable called PORTS_SET_UMASK or something. It will allow those who always (or just sometimes) forget to change their umask so that the port will be usable for "mere mortals"? Those who want the port to follow the umask will certainly not define that vriable. For those who don't, who forgot to change it, etc. can just define it in some dotfile and have it set every time they log/su in. No problems (except for yet another change to the .mk files). IMHO it could satisfy most people. Sander > Jordan >
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