Bug 1485789

Hello Ralph,

could you please elaborate on this? Because I don't see a reason why any files in /usr/share/doc/<package_name>/* should have other than read-only permissions.

These permissions are by default set with %doc macro in RPM specfile. If you look at other files located /usr/share/doc, they have all the same permissions (0644) AFAICT.

And please, don't forget that /usr folder can be mounted via network, where it can be completely set as read-only and the Fedora should still work in that case.

Unless you provide me with proper and valid usecase, why the files should have other than read-only permissions (for example some Fedora Wide Change tracking wiki), then I will close this BZ sooner or later.

  -- Dee'Kej --

I realize, my initial posting wasn't well put and misleading.

My point is: /usr/share/doc/<packagename> directories
(here: /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts) need to carry worldwide excutable permissions.

ATM, you have:
# rpm -qlvp urw-fonts-2.4-23.fc26.noarch.rpm  | grep doc
drw-r--r--    2 root    root                        0 Feb 12  2017 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                    17992 Apr 23  2001 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     2245 Jan 18  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     1317 Jul 12  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README.tweaks

A far as I can tell, the origin of this issue is rpm's behavior on %docdir having changed some rpm rsp. Fedora releases ago.

In your case the origin seem to be %defattr(0644,root,root,0755) in urw-fonts.spec

(In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #2)
> I realize, my initial posting wasn't well put and misleading.
> 
> My point is: /usr/share/doc/<packagename> directories
> (here: /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts) need to carry worldwide excutable
> permissions.
> 
> A far as I can tell, the origin of this issue is rpm's behavior on %docdir
> having changed some rpm rsp. Fedora releases ago.
> 
> In your case the origin seem to be %defattr(0644,root,root,0755) in
> urw-fonts.spec

Ah, OK, thanks for the update. :) When I try it myself, I indeed see what you have posted:

Normandy-SR4[dkaspar] ~/Downloads $ rpm -qlvp urw-fonts-2.4-23.fc26.noarch.rpm | grep doc
drw-r--r--    2 root    root      0 Feb 12  2017 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root  17992 Apr 23  2001 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root   2245 Jan 18  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root   1317 Jul 12  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README.tweaks

However, after the installation, everything seems to be as it should:

Normandy-SR4[dkaspar] /usr/share/doc $ rpm -q urw-fonts 
urw-fonts-2.4-22.fc24.noarch
Normandy-SR4[dkaspar] /usr/share/doc $ rpm -qlv urw-fonts-2.4-22.fc24.noarch | grep doc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root     0 Feb  5  2016 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root 17992 Apr 23  2001 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root  2245 Jan 18  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root  1317 Jul 12  2002 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README.tweaks
Normandy-SR4[dkaspar] /usr/share/doc $ ll -d urw-fonts
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root      root    52 Jun 14  2016 urw-fonts/

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Anyway, the urw-fonts will be soon obsoleted (approximately in September, it depends on the new release of ghostscript-9.22) by a new font-package:
> urw-base35-fonts (BZ #1458840)
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/urw-base35-fonts

In case it does not cause any significant problems for you, I will close this, and we will wait for the release of new package, which should have the correct permissions set. :) (It actually does not uses the /usr/share/doc anymore, only /usr/share/licenses, for which it uses %license macro, without the deprecated %defattr() macro.)

Best regards,

-- Dee'Kej --

REOPENING.

Well, I do not agree with you. Fedora 26 is not EOL for at least 3 months and you refuse to fix an apparent bug in a deployed product?

What am I supposed to think of this?

(In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #4)
> REOPENING.
> 
> Well, I do not agree with you. Fedora 26 is not EOL for at least 3 months
> and you refuse to fix an apparent bug in a deployed product?
> 
> What am I supposed to think of this?

Well, there is an error in specfile. But I still do not see what this actually breaks... Can you provide some usecase where it causes a problem?

Because what I can see after installation is that the /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts have the 0755 permissions as it should:

Normandy-SR4[dkaspar] ~ $ ll -d /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 52 Jun 14  2016 /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/

It has been like this for a very long time (~years) now in Fedora, and as I said -  the package will be soon obsoleted by a new package (approximately a month). Unless you provide me with a use-case where it *actually* breaks anything, I don't see a reason why this couldn't wait ~month, since it didn't bother anyone before for such a long time... :)

(In reply to David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] from comment #5)
> (In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #4)
> > REOPENING.
> > 
> > Well, I do not agree with you. Fedora 26 is not EOL for at least 3 months
> > and you refuse to fix an apparent bug in a deployed product?
> > 
> > What am I supposed to think of this?
> 
> Well, there is an error in specfile. But I still do not see what this
> actually breaks... Can you provide some usecase where it causes a problem?


# rpm -qV urw-fonts
missing   d /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING (Permission denied)
missing   d /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README (Permission denied)
missing   d /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README.tweaks (Permission denied)

# ls /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README': Permission denied
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/README.tweaks': Permission denied
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING': Permission denied
COPYING  README  README.tweaks

# cat /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING 
cat: /usr/share/doc/urw-fonts/COPYING: Permission denied

> It has been like this for a very long time (~years) now in Fedora,
This doesn't mean much nor I don't care.

'urw-fonts' package is now retired for master, f28, and f27. It has been replaced with 'urw-base35-fonts'.

'urw-fonts' will be kept in in f26 branch until EOL of Fedora 26.

Since F26 will be EOL in August (approximately) - and no proper reproducer has been provided - I'm closing this BZ as WONTFIX.

Reopening

(In reply to David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] from comment #7)
> Since F26 will be EOL in August (approximately)
Still half a year to go. If you consider this to be an appropriate response to a BZ, I do not agree with you.

> - and no proper reproducer
> has been provided

Sigh - Here we go:
# mock -r fedora-26-x86_64 --init
# mock -r fedora-26-x86_64 --install urw-fonts
# ls -ld /var/lib/mock/fedora-26-x86_64/root/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
drw-r--r--. 2 root root 4096 Mar  5 14:28 /var/lib/mock/fedora-26-x86_64/root/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts

(In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #8)
> Sigh - Here we go:
> # mock -r fedora-26-x86_64 --init
> # mock -r fedora-26-x86_64 --install urw-fonts
> # ls -ld /var/lib/mock/fedora-26-x86_64/root/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts
> drw-r--r--. 2 root root 4096 Mar  5 14:28
> /var/lib/mock/fedora-26-x86_64/root/usr/share/doc/urw-fonts

And again - what does it *actually* break? For example are koji builds broken because of this? Or do users of Fedora 26 experience some difficulties?

I'm not going to play CLOSING/REOPENING ping pong with you here, especially with your attitude:

(In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #6)
> This doesn't mean much nor I don't care.

So here, enjoy: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25503107

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There are problems with higher importance that needs my attention. Problems that actually affect users of Fedora, which need fixing...

Have a nice day!

urw-fonts-2.4-24.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4cb7ea3d32

urw-fonts-2.4-24.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4cb7ea3d32

urw-fonts-2.4-24.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.