Re: File permissions on git fetched packages.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm trying to package a specific version of libgit2, fetched from a git
> repo. I noticed that when cloned in /gnu/store/xxx-git-checkout, all
> files have 444 permissions, because /gnu/store is mounted read-only I guess.
>
> The problem is when /gnu/store/xxx-git-checkout/tests/resources/ are
> copied to /tmp and tests are run, they fail when trying to write on read
> only files.
>
> Any idea on how to overcome this issue and preserve file permissions on
> git fetched packages ?

I think you just have to “chmod -R +w” those files.

I was looking for examples of packages that use ‘git-fetch’ and that do
that, but I couldn’t easily find one.  I suppose that’s what they do
when they have to, though.

HTH!

Ludo’.