[Wigwam-devel] Strange way for patch to fail.

[John F. <fe...@dd...>]

so, I have this package perl-IO-1.20 which has a patch applied to it so
that it will build on perl 5.6.* (yeah perl 5.6 allready has IO-1.20 but I
want it in the project because some of the machines the project is working
on don't have perl-IO-1.20... so .. )

anyhow.. the real strange issue is that the patch is failing to apply on
solaris.  It turns out that this is because patch doesn't have write
permision to the file it's trying to patch. That's because the archive has
the files stored without the write bit set, and solaris's tar preserves
those permissions when it unpacks it, ughh. 

currently patches are applied in ext/bin/build/expand-sources right after
the untar, so theres no hook in which to fix the perms. 

anyone have an idea for an elegant solution to this? 

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