[PATCH] Portsnap - set a good umask, for ports consistancy

[Daniel Bond]

Hi,

I have a case where some users have different umasks (0077 in some  
cases). When these users call portsnap (via sudo), it leaves the port- 
directories permissions in an inconsistent state, and people need to  
use sudo to list files.
I'm not sure honoring "umask" is good from a users-perspective, even  
if umask is a standard UNIX mechanism of directory and file permissions.

I suggest setting a reasonable umask, for the duration of the portsnap  
program. As far as I know, this should only effect /usr/ports, and if  
a user wishes to "hide" the contents of this folder, a manual chmod of  
it should not be overridden, until /usr/ports is completely removed  
and recreated.

If this is a bad suggestion, would it be feasible to make it a config- 
option?


BTW, I really like portsnap - it is a great program. Also I'd like to  
note that I am very happy with speed from european mirrors these days,  
which I've been grunting about earlier. Thanks for the effort you put  
into this! :)



Best regards,


Daniel Bond.

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> From: Daniel Bond <db at g5.nsn.no>
> Date: August 25, 2009 10:28:58 AM GMT+02:00
> To: db at danielbond.org
> Subject: [PATCH] Portsnap - set a good umask, for ports consistancy
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