dkms and corruption of kernel-devel package

[Andre Robatino]

Panu Matilainen <pmatilai <at> laiskiainen.org> writes:

> Dunno about the System.map (other than I've always relied on the ones in 
> /boot), but as for the timestamps, kernel-devel itself causes that as it 
> runs hardlink on itself at package post-installation.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware there was a copy in a different location,
that's handy. Another question though - the copy in /usr/src/kernels/ is
world-readable and the one in /boot/ isn't, for example

[root at compaq-pc ~]# ls -l /boot/System.map-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64/System.map
-rw-------. 1 root root 2468248 Aug 21 15:24 /boot/System.map-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2468248 Aug 21 15:25
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64/System.map
[root at compaq-pc ~]#

Is there a reason for that?