Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Permission change ignored

[Aaron Bentley]

Robin Green wrote:
> tla does not notice a permissions change (at least, when that is the
> *only* change that has been made since last commit. That's the only
> scenario I've tested.)

This is a known issue.  See "[Hey tom!] file permissions and inode-sigs" 
 and other posts from around June 28.

> As this has security implications for my usage (storing /etc directory
> for a server), I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me
> fix this bug ASAP.

To solve it for a particular file, just touch the file.

Apparently, Ben Burns has fixed it in his tree, but he says the change 
isn't cleanly isolated.  It's somewhere in here:

address@hidden/tla--library-share--1.3

His changes are incompatible with your existing pristines, so you'll 
need to get rid of the pristines after applying the changes.  For the 
mainline, that's not acceptable, so it needs some compatibility code.

Aaron