ports system and umask

[martinko]

Marcus Reid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had my umask set to 007 and installed some ports, and it broke a
> lot of things.  Some ports seem to install files with correct permissions,
> while others install files with the default umask.  Worse, one port
> even changed the perms on /usr/local/lib to 770, which made my system
> unusable until I booted into single and fixed it.
> 
> Should the ports system check for this and correct the umask before
> installing files with bad permissions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcus

Hallo,

We have similar problems here -- default umask is set to 027 and 
therefore one needs to always remember changing it to 022 prior 
installing any ports or packages.
Been bitten many times because of this. :-\

Martin