file permissions issue

[0-wiz-0]

With the 2.3 tarball from pypi, the file permissions of the files in site-packages/libarchive_c-2.3-py3.5.egg-info/* are incorrect (600), which breaks installation of packages which want to use this but are not run by root.
I'm not sure where these permissions come from.
It was the same with 2.2.

[Changaco]

I'm the one who created the package, and my umask is 066, so that's where the 600 permissions come from. The question is: what's the best way to fix your problem?

[0-wiz-0]

I don't know the exact process how you create these, but I hope you call a script or python setup target. Can you add a umask call somewhere there?

[Changaco]

Good idea, an os.umask(2) call in setup.py might do the trick.

[Changaco]

Changing the umask isn't enough, we need to change the permissions of all source files in the git repo because setuptools uses hard links when it creates tarballs.

[Changaco]

To clarify, permissions are fine in git, they're just wrong in my local copy.

[Changaco]

2.4 release with correct permissions uploaded to PyPI.

[anthraxx]

hm this umask changes resulted in python setup.py install creating the /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ directory with permissions 775 instead of 755 making in group writable. This is not really optimal for distribution level of packaging as the directory permissions differ from the global expected values.
in my opinion having that umask in the setup.py is not really optimal and i needed to patch it away to create packages for the distribution that can be shipped

[0-wiz-0]

Why not use the proper umask (octal 022) instead, then?

[Changaco]

sigh, you're right I should have used 022, matching the u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX I put in the Makefile. I don't think it's worth another release though.

[anthraxx]

well, fair enough... it think that will work 😸
No, I assume most package maintainers that care will notice that themselves, from my point of view its perfectly fine if it only gets into the next release! Thank you very much for fixing my concern!
have a nice day 👍