From e25cedd0b5621dc02e47eea674006578ac062c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 15:37:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tar: override symlink permissions On Linux, symlink permissions cannot be altered and are always 0777. On Mac OS X they can be 0755. Force 0777 here to keep tarballs reproducible across systems Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- tools/tar/patches/110-symlink-force-permissions.patch | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/tar/patches/110-symlink-force-permissions.patch diff --git a/tools/tar/patches/110-symlink-force-permissions.patch b/tools/tar/patches/110-symlink-force-permissions.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..83dbda6ec5 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/tar/patches/110-symlink-force-permissions.patch @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- a/src/create.c ++++ b/src/create.c +@@ -1851,6 +1851,7 @@ dump_file0 (struct tar_stat_info *st, ch + #ifdef HAVE_READLINK + else if (S_ISLNK (st->stat.st_mode)) + { ++ st->stat.st_mode |= 0777; /* make permissions portable */ + st->link_name = areadlinkat_with_size (parentfd, name, st->stat.st_size); + if (!st->link_name) + { -- 2.30.2