In: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html I can read the following: "To manually upload a file to mirror://gentoo, scp it to dev.gentoo.org:/space/distfiles-local. You must ensure that the permissions are set to ug+rw manually." The problem is that seems that most of people doesn't change default permissions, leaving group as read-only. Also, I am not sure if I have always remembered to modify the permissions, but I think that sometime I forgot about it and, anyway, files were properly mirrored :-/ Then, 1. If we really require to manually give ug+rw permissions to our files, would be interesting to at a reference explaining the reasons 2. If it's not needed... I think that would be better to simply drop that :-) Thanks a lot Reproducible: Always
infra: Please tell what the requirement is currently and why so the documentation can be adjusted.
The reason for it is so that somebody else can replace your version if they need to. Maybe I have an incron job that just updates the perms?
I implemented the incrond solution today; so the devmanual documentation related to chmod ug+rw can be dropped. -A
Fixed in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=b2594e940d56a89c40b21c6642bc53a424a37134