[Distutils] FW: easy_install bug report

[Pascoe, S (Stephen)]

I am forwarding the message below from a colleague using easy_install
for setuptools-0.6c7.  It doesn't appear to set permissions correctly on
directories if umask is set to a non-standard value.  Alan's suggested
default behaviour sounds right to me.

Cheers,
Stephen.

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Stephen Pascoe  +44 (0)1235 445980
British Atmospheric Data Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Iwi [mailto:A.M.Iwi at rl.ac.uk] 
Sent: 12 December 2007 08:39
To: Pascoe, S (Stephen)
Subject: easy_install bug report

Stephen,

Please can you pass this on to people who care about such things, as I
don't know who to contact.

I tried using easy_install while having umask set to 027.  (This is the
umask that I have set up in my user account, and after "su" the root
shell inherited the same umask.)

Although it was careful enough to create regular files with world access
permissions, it created directories with permissions subject to the
umask, i.e. mode 750 rather than 755, so the installed package did not
work properly for non-root users.  I changed the permissions on the
directories and it seems to be otherwise fine.

I think that easy_install should create directories with world access,
regardless of the umask setting (at least by default, when writing to
the shared python directory as root).

Thanks,
Alan