Re: service file permissions breaking due to file 5.47 / redhat-rpm-config

Panu Matilainen via devel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/16/26 8:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Steve Grubb <[email protected]> said:
>> On Sunday, August 16, 2026 1:05:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time Gary Buhrmaster
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM Steve Grubb via devel
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, August 16, 2026 3:26:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time Lennart
>>>> Poettering wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This sounds highly problematic, and really should be reverted.
>>>>
>>>> This was so problematic that it was reverted in commit f37cc42c on March
>>>> 25, 2026, explicitly because it “matches too many unix stanza files.”
>>>>
>>>> What appears to have happened, is commit 7a1ada9c landed Sept 6,2025.
>>>> File-5.47 was released Feb 27. Complaints and it was reverted in March
>>>> as noted. Then June 8, 2026 file 5.48 was released. If we just update to
>>>> the latest, this problem goes away.
>>>
>>> The update to 5.48 was submitted around a month
>>> ago, but it failed a fedora functional gating test
>>> in bodhi.  As I recall, it is waiting on the packager
>>> (and/or upstream) to address the issue.
>>
>> I suppose commit f37cc42c could be applied while the gating blocker is being
>> worked out. I also see some issues in upstream for which I'm sending patches.
> 
> Still wouldn't hurt to depend on packaging behavior to install proper
> perms.  I checked up-imapproxy, it was using "install -m 0755" for no
> good reason, so I fixed it in rawhide.

Thanks. THIS is the main thing to do here.

Installing files with explicit 0755 permissions and then expecting 
something getting packaged is ... peculiar.

	- Panu -

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