Mirroring and stage and tmp dirs

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Mon Apr 17 13:21:00 GMT 2006


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According to Igor Peshansky on 4/16/2006 9:04 AM:
> The /stage folder is used to build up parts of the changed directory
> structure and transfer them over in one swell foop (to avoid a race with
> the upset cron job, where it could catch the uploader in mid-update and
> result in a broken setup.ini).

And somebody just changed the permissions on that directory so that it is
no longer writable by members of the cygwin group.  In other words, when I
tried to use it this morning to upload bash-3.1-5, I got permissions
errors, whereas previously I had no problems.

$ ls -ld stage  # mtime is near when I used it to upload coreutils-5.94-5
drwxrwsr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 15 16:30 stage
$ ls -ld --time=ctime stage  # ctime reflects permissions change
drwxrwsr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 17 09:00 stage

cgf - care to fix it please?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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