Summary

chmod of modules.db on new installation

Metadata

• Id: 16ae9e73a310adbef74d9e4b5a05aa04128e38e7
• Trac id: 1305
• Type: defect
• Reporter: retroj
• Owner: mario
• Cc:
• Status: accepted
• Component: build system
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution:
• Priority: major
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 4.11.0
• Changetime: 2026-08-14 21:40:30 UTC
• Created: 2016-07-17 00:44:49 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

I use a umask of 0027 on my debian system, so files created with my user account have no 'other' permissions by default. I built and installed CHICKEN 4.11.0 as follows:

   $ make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/usr/local
   $ sudo make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/usr/local install

The file /usr/local/lib/chicken/8/modules.db was installed with the following permissions:

   -rw-r----- 1 root staff 50046 Jul 16 16:18 /usr/local/lib/chicken/8/modules.db

This prevents chicken-install from working properly.

Changes and comments

[2016-08-25 20:45:34 UTC] sjamaan set difficulty to easy

[2026-08-14 21:37:45 UTC] mario set owner to mario

[2026-08-14 21:37:45 UTC] mario changed status from new to accepted

[2026-08-14 21:40:30 UTC] mario wrote:

I can reproduce the issue on CHICKEN 6.0.0. As discussed with Felix in IRC, we should explicitly set the file mode at installation time, probably from the Makefile.