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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42119] bim 1.1.4: wrong file permissions


From: Clemens Buchacher
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42119] bim 1.1.4: wrong file permissions
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:37:49 +0000
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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42119>

                 Summary: bim 1.1.4: wrong file permissions
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: drizzd
            Submitted on: Mon 14 Apr 2014 06:37:47 PM GMT
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Installation Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Clemens Buchacher
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.1
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The latest tar release of the bim package does not set read permission to all
on the contained files. The pkg install command does not fix up permissions.
Therefore this results in  installation unusable for anyone but root:


octave:1> news bim
error: fgets: invalid stream number = -1
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/miscellaneous/private/display_info_file.m
at line 50, column 3
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/miscellaneous/news.m at line 34, column 5



octave:1> pkg load bim
warning: load_path: /usr/share/octave/packages/bim-1.1.4/private: Permission
denied



$ tar tvf bim-1.1.4.tar.gz 
drwxr-x--- carlo/numer       0 2014-03-30 20:02 bim/
-rw-r----- carlo/numer    1508 2014-03-30 18:48 bim/NEWS
drwxr-x--- carlo/numer       0 2014-03-30 20:02 bim/inst/
-rw-r----- carlo/numer    3232 2014-03-30 18:14 bim/inst/bim3a_reaction.m
-rw-r----- carlo/numer    5250 2014-03-30 18:48
bim/inst/bim2a_axisymmetric_reaction.m
[...]





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