Comment 5 for bug 10560

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:29:12 +0100
From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#282468: subversion binaries should be replaced through wrapper scripts to prevent
 users of keep on screwing their repositories

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On Monday 22 November 2004 12.28, Wilfried Goesgens wrote:
> Package: subversion
> Version: 1.0.9-2
> Severity: serious
>
>
> as the subversion book states, one should create a wrapper script
> arround the subversion binaries to keep them from screwing the berkley
> db and their file permission.

I think this is a bug in subversion - the svn binary should take care about=
=20
this, and not require a wrapper script.

if (db is g+w) { umask 002 }

and the problem would go away.

wrapper scripts are ugly and error prone and should, imho be avoided in=20
almost all cases.

=2D- vbi

=2D-=20
TODO: apt-get install signify

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