Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:34:25 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Re: unreadable doc files in kernel tarball |
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[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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