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DescriptionAndreas Schneider
2019-12-05 13:16:23 UTC
Description of problem:
The samba package contains a perl tool called pidl. To install it, a Makefile.PL is provided which uses MakeMaker.
When I call 'make install', files are installed with permission 0444 instead of 0644.
I don't see a way that I can influence this.
Comment 1Andreas Schneider
2019-12-05 13:32:08 UTC
Actually it seems to be already the 'make' command which copies .pm files to blib/ directory.
Comment 2Andreas Schneider
2019-12-05 13:57:35 UTC
Both, when copying the files to blib dir and on installing, it does a chmod 0444 according to strace.
Comment 3Andreas Schneider
2019-12-05 14:02:03 UTC
Reproducer:
Get the Samba package and unzip the tarball:
cd pidl
perl Makefile.PL
make
make DESTDIR=/tmp/wurst install_vendor
ExtUtils::Install (called by ExtUtils::MakeMaker) follows permissions of the source. From the manual:
Copies each directory tree of %from_to to its corresponding value preserving
timestamps and permissions.
If you have a source file without a write permission, the installed file will be stripped from that permission either. I guess that's your case. Although upstream has reported some inconsistencies in the behavior.
Could you tell me what exact samba source archive do you use?
Ok. I can reproduce it:
$ ls -lR
.:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 test test 60 Dec 5 15:51 script
./script:
total 0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 test test 0 Dec 5 15:51 pidl
$ perl -MExtUtils::Install -e 'install([ from_to => { q{script} => q{/tmp/b} } ])'
Installing /tmp/b/pidl
$ ls -l /tmp/b/pidl
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 test test 0 Dec 5 15:51 /tmp/b/pidl
Comment 6Andreas Schneider
2019-12-05 15:47:58 UTC
Thanks, I've worked around the bug by specifying %attr for each file in the spec file.
ExtUtils::Install documentation does not match the behavior. The current behavior is asserted by ExtUtils::Install tests. It's quite possible the current behavior is desired. I raised a question to the upstream together with a patch that changes the behavior. Let's wait some time for upstream's opinion.
Comment 8Andreas Schneider
2019-12-06 09:36:50 UTC
If the current behavior is desired, then there needs to be a option to change that.
Comment 11RHEL Program Management
2021-06-05 07:30:30 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release. Therefore, it is being closed. If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.