[Fedora-packaging] Should .so files under python site dir be 755 perms?

Mamoru TASAKA mtasaka at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 11 15:34:54 UTC 2013


Peter Lemenkov wrote, at 09/10/2013 07:24 PM +9:00:
> 2013/9/10 Christopher Meng <cickumqt at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a python-pygit2 review, in this review the reviewer asked me to
>> change the perms of the .so files from 755 to 644. In fact I've done
>> this for many other packages, but I want to ask if this is really
>> needed?
>
> You shouldn't change permissions on so-files. Otherwise RPM debuginfo-
> and dependency-generators won't process them. At least that was in the
> earlier versions of rpmbuild.

For debuginfo issue, please check my previous mail. For dependency
generation, actually in many cases we want to filter it out.

Regards,
Mamoru





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