Re: [boost] [1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available

From: Tarjei Knapstad (tarjei.knapstad_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 08:08:17

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:33, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Tarjei Knapstad writes:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:27, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> > > Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
> > > following locations:
> > > 
> > >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
> > >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
> > >     http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip
> > > 
> > > These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are
> > > the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still
> > > unaware of (including problems with archives preparation)
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user (for
> > the unarchived files). 
> 
> That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying anything
> in the distribution. Or should you?
> 

Maybe not for the files, but the directories definitely need +w,
otherwise I can't write to them. (In other words, I can't even build now
without changing the permissions of at least the directories because jam
can't write to/create the build directories).

> > Permissions are -r--r--r-- for files and
> > dr-xr-xr-x for directories. Should be -rw-r--r-- and drwxr-xr-x.
> > At least it's not 777 like last time :D
> 
> Well, obviously we've worked on this :).
> 

After the above gets fixed: Good job :)

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Tarjei