Re: Bad permissions on /tmp
>>>>> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
Branden> Sorry, I meant dpkg-deb -x. And joeyh tells me on IRC
Branden> that this in fact correct behavior, if the untarring user
Branden> has rights to modify the perms on the current directory.
Branden> Still, if you did any dpkg-deb -x'ing, that might explain
Branden> it.
So ... the conclusion is that you must never dpkg-deb -x a source
file into /tmp, as root (or any other place where you don't
want the permissions to be changed). If so, this sounds like
a serious "gotcha" that is rather unexpected.
However, I thought most (if not all) source tar files never contain
the ./ directory, so I am puzzled as how it could happen.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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