git's man pages are needlessly installed executable: $ rpm -ql git-core-1.4.2.4-1.fc6.x86_64 | grep man | xargs ls -g -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1152 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-add.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1446 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-am.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 649 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-annotate.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2086 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-apply.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1499 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-applymbox.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 793 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-applypatch.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1795 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-bisect.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 667 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-blame.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1443 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-branch.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 993 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-cat-file.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2005 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-checkout.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2486 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-checkout-index.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1185 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-check-ref-format.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 888 Oct 18 07:14 /usr/share/man/man1/git-cherry.1.gz [...]
Thanks fixed with %attr directive on manpages.
Scratch that, just did it at the source.