Bug 48716

Summary:	app-portage/mirrorselect changes permissions of /etc/make.conf
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Drake Wyrm <lilwyrm>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	John Mylchreest (RETIRED) <johnm>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tools-portage
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.haell.com/~wyrm/projects/gentoo/app-portage_mirrorselect
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	use 'cp -p' to create make.conf.old

Description Drake Wyrm 2004-04-22 13:15:08 UTC

mirrorselect fails to preserve the permissions of /etc/make.conf if root's umask differs from the permissions of /etc/make.conf

Example:
# umask
0077
# ls -l /etc/make.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14930 Apr 22 06:28 /etc/make.conf
# mirrorselect -a
# ls -l /etc/make.conf
-rw-------    1 root     root        14780 Apr 22 12:11 /etc/make.conf

Expected:
# mirrorselect -a
# ls -l /etc/make.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14780 Apr 22 12:11 /etc/make.conf

Comment 1 Drake Wyrm 2004-04-22 13:18:57 UTC

Created attachment 29839 [details, diff]
use 'cp -p' to create make.conf.old

Rather than moving the old make.conf, use 'cp -p' That way, if the failsafe
below needs to restore make.conf, the permissions will still be preserved

Comment 2 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-22 05:44:08 UTC

fixed as suggested in 0.85