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Bug 314183

Summary: Please clarify "ug+rw" requeriment for files in /space/distfiles-local
Product: Documentation Reporter: Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component: DevmanualAssignee: Gentoo Devmanual Team <devmanual>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: spatz
Priority: High Keywords: InVCS
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/index.html
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-04-09 17:10:56 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-04-10 08:14:29 UTC 
infra: Please tell what the requirement is currently and why so the documentation can be adjusted.
Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2010-04-24 22:37:37 UTC 
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?
Comment 3 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-09-25 02:19:06 UTC 
I implemented the incrond solution today; so the devmanual documentation related to chmod ug+rw can be dropped.

-A