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SubjectRe: unreadable doc files in kernel tarball
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Peter Samuelson <peter@wire.cadcamlab.org> writes:
> > > -rw------- torvalds/eng 15872 1999-05-10 13:00:10 linux/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
> > > -rw------- torvalds/eng 53064 1999-02-06 12:46:20 linux/Documentation/proc.txt
> [Mike Coleman]
> > Yeah, I noticed this too. Could a "chmod -R" be made part of the
> > release process?
>
> Don't be silly. This only affects you if you untar as a different user
> than you build as. And if you do that, you will have a read-only
> source directory which you can't build in anyway.[1]


I untar as root, since I don't allow anyone else to write to /usr/src. So the
file ends up being readable only by root. I'd like to be able to peruse the
bloody source without su'ing to root, though.

What part of that is silly?

--Mike


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