From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 12:01:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: add BR2_DL_DIR_OPTS In-Reply-To: <20181101090616.GQ28575@scaer> References: <20181031213930.49837-1-mmayer@broadcom.com> <20181101090616.GQ28575@scaer> Message-ID: <20181101120151.4d8e4055@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 10:06:16 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On 2018-10-31 14:39 -0700, Markus Mayer spake thusly: > > Provide a simple mechanism to pass extra arguments to "mkdir" when > > creating download directories. This can be helpful if one needs the > > download directories to be writable multiple users ("shared download > > cache"). > > In retrospect, I think our enforcing of umask globally is wrong. > > It was added in commit bee5745ccc2 (Makefile: don't depend on the umask) > under the requirements that modes in target/ be predicatble. > > Although that is indeed a good reason, I think we should have instead > ensured those modes with a plain chmod on target/ during the > target-finalize step. But is it possible to have a plain "chmod" on target/ that will properly preserve whatever packages have decided to use as permissions when installing files ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com