[Hackage] #886: when installing globally, cabal shouldn't use umask, should set mods to 755 or 644

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Sat Sep 24 12:38:35 CEST 2011


#886: when installing globally, cabal shouldn't use umask, should set mods to 755
or 644
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  Reporter:  alistra        |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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Comment(by alistra):

 After reinstalling any package with umask 077 this happens at first at
 user trying to invoke ghci with cabal 0.10.2-r1
 {{{
 GHCi, version 7.0.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
 /usr/lib/ghc-7.0.4/package.conf.d/package.cache: openBinaryFile:
 permission denied (Permission denied)
 }}}

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