On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:25 +0200, Ali H. Caliskan wrote: > Hello fellow Arch Linux devels and users, > > I'm wondering if it's inappropriate to use "mkdir -p" in PKGBUILD instead of > "install". I've seen quite many official PKGBUILDs that use mkdir instead of > install, whose very structure I've adopted and applied in my various > PKBUILDs. Does it matter if it's mkdir or install, and why? > > Kind regards, > Ali Usually it doesn't matter, but I prefer to use install -d instead of mkdir. Some users like to have umask set to something completely non-default, which breaks permissions with mkdir -p. With install -m755 -d I can specifiy the correct permissions explicit instead of hoping the user doesn't have umask set.
