wget postinstall and setup

[Reini Urban]

Pierre A. Humblet schrieb:
> The wget postinstall is doing a cp. 
> As discussed earlier, a cp does not preserve the
> ACL and any cp done in a postinstall script must be
> accompanied by a "touch" to create the new file 
> before copying unto it (see e.g. as in man.sh), or a "chmod"
> to set reasonable permissions after the copying (e.g.
> as in openldap.sh).
> If that's not done, the user may end up having unreadable
> files. Sorry I didn't notice that earlier.

/bin/install -m MODE also from coreutils is IMHO easier.

> It's a pain to have to impose this to all package maintainers.
> It would be much better to set CYGWIN=nontsec from setup.exe
> while running the postinstall scripts.
> The only scripts that need to chown or chmod files are those
> related to services (cron, exim,...). Their maintainers are well
> aware of that. They should set CYGWIN=ntsec. 

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Reini Urban
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