Re: XPInstall and Unix file permissions

Gunner Poulsen wrote:
 > Daniel Veditz wrote:
 > > Jaagup Irve wrote:

 >>> I ran into problems when creating a language pack. The problem is
 >>> that when I install the language pack as root, the file will not
 >>> be readable to other users due to its permission bits.
 >>>
 >>> For what I have understood from a bug I found, the installed jar
 >>> file preserves the permission it was packed with into xpi. I'm
 >>> unable to zip the 755 permission within Windows, am I?

Am I wrong or zip under Unix can?

 >>> Is there a way to tell in install.js to set the file permissions
 >>> to normal during installation?
 >>
 >> If there are no unix-style permissions found in the archive we
 >> create the file with mode 644, or at least that's what the code
 >> says. What are you seeing?
 >
 > 440!
 > And that is the main problem for the moment in the Danish
 > translationproject.

Could you give an URL to have a look at your lang pack?
On which distribution are you testing? (or which Unix flavour?)
 >From which packaging did you installed mozilla? (installer, tar.gz,
RPM, .. ?)

Bye. Andrea

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