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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:40:17PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> My suggestion for resolving this is to modify the smoking modules so, after
> the archive is unpacked (with a proper umask and arguments to tar), they will
> traverse the directory tree and look for any world-writable files. If any are
> found, they will report the smoking of the module as "FAIL", and delete the
> unpacked directory tree, without doing the "perl Makefile.PL/Build.PL ..."
> dance.
>
> Now I volunteer to implement this.
If you do implement this, it shouldn't be the default. Spurious
failures are annoying. And remember, not everyone creates their
tarballs on a platform to which Unix permissions map well. eg, Windows
users.
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