[OE-core] [PATCH] package_ipk: apply umask to control and conffiles

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:29 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 3/9/12 8:15 PM, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> > * Explicitly set umask to 022. Otherwise the build system's
> >    umask leaks into the image.
> 
> I'm surprised that do_package_ipk[umask] didn't work.  Perhaps its the way it's 
> being invoked that is the issue.  (If bitbake doesn't run it, but something else 
> does.. then the umask setting doesn't get used.)
> 
> As for the change of the umask, the changes appear to be specific to the ipk 
> case.  Is this the desired behavior, or could deb and rpm suffer from similar 
> issues?  (I'm not familiar enough with opkg to know how it handles umask 
> settings during package install/rootfs construction..)
> 
> I believe that RPM sets a default umask when it goes through it's package 
> installs/rootfs generation.  But does DEB?

I'm also a bit worried about this patch. I'd like to understand why a
task level umask doesn't work. That shouldn't even make any difference
since the permissions/owners/users from install should be getting
used...

Cheers,

Richard