Re: deken - about file/folder permissions in archive

IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:55:37 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 1/8/26 15:21, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> What are the guidelines for file and folder permissions in the compressed archives used in deken ?


they should be read/writeable by the user, and at most readable by 
groups/others.

this is my personal opinion (and not some formally agreed upon "guideline")

files should never be installed as world-writeable, as this is simply a 
huge security hole.

> As a side question : how to force file/folders permission with deken command line utility ?

there's no flag or somesuch (and i don't really see a reason to add one; 
see above).
but of course you could just invoke `chmod -R` after running `deken 
install`.

if you are talking about the other way (for creating packages with 
'deken') then I also don't see a reason why to allow the user to specify 
permissions of the file.
*however*, 'deken package' should make sure that the permissions are 
"correct" (that is: readable by the user).
in the past I have seen deken archives that had "ugo-rwx" permissions 
(nobody is allowed to do anything). this is now handled by deken-plugin 
(when installing), but of course packages should have proper permissions 
in the first place.

 >
 > I had trouble installing a package of abstraction (audiolab), 
specifically on plugdata (both Windows & OSX), but I also encoutered 
non-critical errors with puredata on windows 11.> I recreated an .dek 
archive using Windows compress menu, pulled it on the deken server and 
this resolved all troubles.
 > Here is a screenshot that shows the file and folder permissions in 
the .dek packages for audiolab(0.7.1) and for the modified version 
(audiolab_debug).
 > I'm looking for an explanation why the modified archive resolves the 
issue.

the data you have given is very vague.
we only now that there is "trouble installing" and "non-critical 
errors". it's hard to come up with an "explanation" without more 
information.

if we have a better understanding of your actual problem, my opinion 
might change (honestly, I doubt it; but I do not understand your 
problem, so it's hard to tell)

gdasr
IOhannes

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