| Subject: | Overly restrictive permissions on build directories |
Newer CPANs (at least newer than 1.7602) seem to make the permissions on
the package build directories (~/.cpan/build/Pkg-Version-random/ on
unix) 0700, where older versions (1.7602, for instance) seem to make
them 0777 & umask.
The more restrictive permissions work in most environments, but in an
NFS environment where you have the 'root_squash' option on, the install
step fails because 'root' is unable to read anything in the build
directory. This means that CPAN is pretty badly broken in these
environments, as everything fails on the 'make install' step.
So could we please have a setting to allow these more restrictive
permissions to be turned off for these kind of environments?
Thanks,
Gavin