From: Tarjei Knapstad (tarjei.knapstad_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 08:08:17
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:33, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Tarjei Knapstad writes:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:27, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> > > Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
> > > following locations:
> > >
> > > http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
> > > http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
> > > http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip
> > >
> > > These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are
> > > the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still
> > > unaware of (including problems with archives preparation)
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user (for
> > the unarchived files).
>
> That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying anything
> in the distribution. Or should you?
>
Maybe not for the files, but the directories definitely need +w,
otherwise I can't write to them. (In other words, I can't even build now
without changing the permissions of at least the directories because jam
can't write to/create the build directories).
> > Permissions are -r--r--r-- for files and
> > dr-xr-xr-x for directories. Should be -rw-r--r-- and drwxr-xr-x.
> > At least it's not 777 like last time :D
>
> Well, obviously we've worked on this :).
>
After the above gets fixed: Good job :)
-- Tarjei