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Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir |
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Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:07:48 +0100 |
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Hallo Ralf!
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> While extracting libtool-2.1a.tar.bz2 (tarball of CVS HEAD) over an
> already present source tree on Solaris:
> | ..
> | tar: libtool-2.1a/config/ltmain.sh: Could not create file: Permission denied
> | ..
> | tar: libtool-2.1a/m4/ltversion.m4: Could not create file: Permission denied
> | ..
>
> Should we avoid putting non-writeable files in the source tree because
> of this?
No, unpacking over an existing tree is a bad idea. What if the objects in the
existing tree were compiled after the sources were put in the tarball?
> Why are we making them non-writeable in the first place?
To remind patch authors to edit the source instead of the generated files.
Cheers,
Gary.
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