Re: [Module-build-general] dist dir is just symlinks?!
Status: Beta
Brought to you by:
kwilliams
|
From: Andreas J K. <and...@an...> - 2003-08-01 10:11:26
|
>>>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:44:56 -0500 (CDT), Dave Rolsky <au...@ur...> said: dr> Bleah, that sucks! Whoever wrote EU::Manifest needs to be beaten. Me, Me! dr> Here's a good one. If you set the copying method to 'cp' it changes the dr> permissions on the copied files to remove write permission. Just dr> brilliant, really. After all, it's inconceivable that anyone might need dr> to ever alter these files. I apologise for not documenting this behaviour. But please consider the age of the code base and the original target audience. I wrote it ~7 years ago and the only place it was used was for the 'make dist' target of MakeMaker. At that time everybody agreed that we should C<chmod -w> all files in a distribution file for CPAN. -- andreas |