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Re: Installing lftp[1.7]


> > > The installation of lftp in 1.7 produces
> > > 
> > > /usr/share/lftp
> > > /usr/share/doc/lftp
> > > 
> > > with permissions:
> > > 
> > > drwxr-x---
> > > 
> > > Running 'cygcheck -cv > out' in a non-administrator account flags 'lftp' 
> > > as 'Incomplete'. Instead it is complete, as showed by the same command 
> > > from root account. Adjusting to drwxr-xr-x fixes the cygcheck also for 
> > > non-admin.
> > 
> > Hm.  It's true that when I look in the binary package file, the directories have
> > the permissions you state above.  I've always ignored permissions in my
> > packages, because I understood that setup.exe would adjust them on installation.
> > Is that not true?
> 
> No.  Setup-1.7 uses the POSIX permissions as stored in the tar archive
> for quite some time now.

OK, well that explains it then.  I think I'll have to go back and have another
look at all of my packages now.

Angelo, thanks for the report.  I'm away from my Cygwin installation this week,
but I'll have a look at this early next week and will release a new lftp package
for Cygwin 1.7.

Andrew.

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