emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:16:04 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:26:06 +0200, Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos at cs.uoi.gr> wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:30:44PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:56:10 +0100 (CET), freebsd001 at pc.jgr.de wrote:
> >>> Dear list members,
> >>>
> >>> I am not only wondering about the permissions of several emacs-related
> >>> directories as it has recently been mentioned in this thread, but also
> >>> about the ownership of several emacs-related files.
> >>
> >> This seems to be a local installation glitch.
> >>
> >>>>find . -not -user root | head -n 3
> >>> ./emacs/22.3/etc
> >>> ./emacs/22.3/etc/GNUS-NEWS
> >>> ./emacs/22.3/etc/fr-drdref.ps
> >>>
> >>>>find . -not -user root | wc -l
> >>>     2643
> >
> > That's probably due to the fact that emacs uses something along the
> > lines of 'tar -chf - ... | tar -xvf - ...' to copy the files, followed
> > (in some cases) by a chown to $LOGNAME (or if that is not set, to
> > $USERNAME). If you just 'su', LOGNAME remains set to what it was
> > before (i.e. nutzer), while 'su -' will clear that out.
> 
> Yep, that's exactly what the Emacs build glue does.
> 
> One of the directories mentioned in the permission listings of the
> thread includes `leim/'.  The source of `emacs/leim/Makefile.in'
> installs files with tar and chown:
> 
>     240             tar -chf - quail/* ja-dic \
>     241                 | (cd ${INSTALLDIR}; umask 0; tar -xvf - && cat > /dev/null) ;\
>     ...
>     264         find ${INSTALLDIR} -exec chown $${installuser} '{}' ';'
> 

I don't think it's a right thing to do, as it doesn't obey nor SHAREOWN/
SHAREGROUP not SHAREMODE, which all ports are supposed to follow. Exactly
for these reason we have special macros COPYTREE_* in bsd.port.mk. Any
chance emacs port could be tricked to use these macros instead of a hand-
crafted untar command?

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Stanislav Sedov
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