On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:13 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Should we make it a packaging policy that packages must own all > directories and files that it installs in order to avoid umask 077 > problems like this where the installed software is effectively broken? +1, although I thought that already is a policy at least in Extras. But not _all_ directories it installs, only those that are not owned by its prerequisite packages. > Also the latter bug is %post creates files with umask 077, leading to > similar breakage. Should then the rule be "use umask within %post if it > creates files?" I think it would be simpler and cleaner to have rpm execute all scriptlets with let's say a 022 umask, and make that umask value configurable in eg. /usr/lib/rpm(/$vendor)/macros. > Can rpmdiff check for this in the future? Are you referring to the rpmdiff distributed with rpmlint, or something else?
