Bug 94894 – Wrapper for subversion umask

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Jose Gonzalez Gomez 2005-06-03 01:02:12 UTC]

The default behavior for subversion tools used through an ssh connection
(svn+ssh://) is to create or update files in the repository using the umask set
for the user. This is undesirable, as this may imply permission problems and
corrupted repositories. Setting umask at user level would be cumbersome and
inappropiate.

It would be desirable to create wrapper scripts to set the desired umask only
when running subversion tools. This would be probably something like the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Generic wrapper for svn commands to enforce correct umask
umask 002
cmdname=`basename $0`
exec /usr/bin/$cmdname "$@"

Then you could create links to this wrapper script:

ln -s svnwrap svn
ln -s svnwrap svnlook
ln -s svnwrap svnadmin
ln -s svnwrap svnserve

Do you think this could be included in the subversion ebuild? If so I could
provide a patch.

Thanks in advance

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2005-06-03 12:48:05 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48809 ***