From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 15 16:31:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23177 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23163; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA07325; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA17827; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <22760.913768017@gjp.erols.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:30:54 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Gary Palmer Subject: Re: file modes in CVS repository Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, krentel@dreamscape.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> The policy, if there is one, is two-fold. Committers should take >> care to set the permissions right before they first import a >> script. Makefiles must be written to ensure that things will still >> work if the permissions are wrong in the repository. > > I think the FreeBSD project also cheats to a certain extent that we > have clean-up scripts that run periodically out of cron and run a > find across the repository and ``tidy up'' any bogus permissions. I > dunno if they are still in place, but they were the last time I > looked (many moons ago) That's true, but I think you're missing some context. The original question concerned shell scripts, and whether the execute bits should be set in the repository files. The clean-up script doesn't mess with that. It just makes sure all the files are readable by everybody. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message