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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.in | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/am/distdir.am | 9 |
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-11-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + do not put world-writable directories in distribution tarballs + * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir): Do not make all directories + group- or world-writable. Instead, use 755. + * NEWS: Update. + 2005-10-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz> * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): Typo. diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in index 68d236d1a..b7aa31831 100644 --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ distdir: $(DISTFILES) || exit 1; \ fi; \ done - -find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \ + -find "$(distdir)" -type d ! -perm -755 \ + -exec chmod u+rwx,go+rx {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec $(SHELL) $(install_sh) -c -m a+r {} {} \; \ @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ Bugs fixes in 1.9.6a: + +* Longstanding bugs: + + - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets. Bugs fixed in 1.9.6: diff --git a/lib/am/distdir.am b/lib/am/distdir.am index 151f5f0ff..b64b2de46 100644 --- a/lib/am/distdir.am +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am @@ -192,11 +192,7 @@ if %?DIST-TARGETS% endif %?DIST-TARGETS% ## ## This complex find command will try to avoid changing the modes of -## links into the source tree, in case they're hard-linked. It will -## also make directories writable by everybody, because some -## brain-dead tar implementations change ownership and permissions of -## a directory before extracting the files, thus becoming unable to -## extract them. +## links into the source tree, in case they're hard-linked. ## ## Ignore return result from chmod, because it might give an error ## if we chmod a symlink. @@ -209,7 +205,8 @@ endif %?DIST-TARGETS% ## the file in place in the source tree. ## if %?TOPDIR_P% - -find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \ + -find "$(distdir)" -type d ! -perm -755 \ + -exec chmod u+rwx,go+rx {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec $(SHELL) $(install_sh) -c -m a+r {} {} \; \ |