Re: unreadable doc files in kernel tarball

Peter Samuelson (peter@wire.cadcamlab.org)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:34:25 -0600 (CST)


[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]
> > -rw------- torvalds/eng 15872 1999-05-10 13:00:10 linux/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
> > -rw------- torvalds/eng 53064 1999-02-06 12:46:20 linux/Documentation/proc.txt
[Mike Coleman]
> Yeah, I noticed this too. Could a "chmod -R" be made part of the
> release process?

Don't be silly. This only affects you if you untar as a different user
than you build as. And if you do that, you will have a read-only
source directory which you can't build in anyway.[1]

[1] Though I am currently trying to change this. I have a relatively
small patch that changes some Makefiles, Configure, Menuconfig, etc.
and adds an autoconf-ish `configure' to set up VPATHs. Shows
promise of working on i386 soon....

-- 
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>

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