#528: Permissions on "cabal fetch" files too tight ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: minor | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Old description:

13:54 <twb> Why has cabal seemingly ignored my umask and made files in /home/twb/.cabal/packages unreadable by the "nobody" user? 00:14 <dcoutts> ah, I think I know 00:14 <dcoutts> it's the writeFileAtomic function 00:14 <dcoutts> are you using Cabal HEAD or 1.6? 00:15 <twb> whatever cabal upgrade gave me, I think 00:15 <dcoutts> we create a temp file and rename it over the dest 00:15 <twb> Probably not HEAD 00:15 <dcoutts> but the System.Directory function to create a temp file makes it readable only by the current user 00:16 <dcoutts> file a ticket, so we don't forget

New description: {{{ 13:54 <twb> Why has cabal seemingly ignored my umask and made files in /home/twb/.cabal/packages unreadable by the "nobody" user? 00:14 <dcoutts> ah, I think I know 00:14 <dcoutts> it's the writeFileAtomic function 00:14 <dcoutts> are you using Cabal HEAD or 1.6? 00:15 <twb> whatever cabal upgrade gave me, I think 00:15 <dcoutts> we create a temp file and rename it over the dest 00:15 <twb> Probably not HEAD 00:15 <dcoutts> but the System.Directory function to create a temp file makes it readable only by the current user 00:16 <dcoutts> file a ticket, so we don't forget }}} Comment (by duncan): Actually, now I'm not quite sure if this is the cause. Anyway, the thing to check is `openNewBinaryFile` in `Distribution.Compat.TempFile`. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/528#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects