Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild execute permissions: problem with cvs

[Jerry A!]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:39:28PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
: Hi all,
: 
: There's a problem (at least on my machine) with some ebuilds. They have some 
: or all execute permissions set. Examples are skel.build, all but one of the 
: sys-kernel/linux/linux-* ebuilds, and about 50 others. 
: 
: I tried disabling execute permissions on skel.build. cvs wouldn't recognize 
: it as a new revision, so I also removed a dot from the end of a sentence in 
: the file. When I commited and re-updated, it was executable again.
: 
: I don't know what's going on, but I think someone with cvs root access should 
: handle this.

Are you using "emerge rsync"?  If so, this is a known issue and Dan is
looking into it...

        --Jerry

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