#627: sdist drops executable permissions for files in the tarball ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: draconx | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.10 Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: Linux ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed * milestone: => Cabal-1.10 Comment: {{{ Mon Dec 20 18:13:08 GMT 2010 ramsdell@mitre.org * sdist perms fix on Jan 17 14:42:43 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * Preserve executable bit during in sdist for extra-source-files Mon Jan 17 14:49:00 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * Preserve executable permissions on unpack }}} Will be included in next Cabal-1.10.x release, and next cabal-install-0.10 release. The new behaviour is as follows: * every directory has mode 0755 * files in extra-source-files that have the user executable bit set get mode 0755 * all other files get mode 0644 -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/627#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects