Setting file permissions for a module built on a Windows PC

[Anonymous Monk]

I have developed a pure perl module which I wish to

dmake dist

for upload to CPAN.

When I execute the above, the file permissions come out as:

C:\Phil\Perl\Math-Subsets-List>tar -tvf Math-Subsets-List-1.005.tar
drw-rw-rw- philip r brenan/0 0 2012-08-23 21:35 Math-Subsets-List-1.00
+5/

-rw-rw-rw- philip r brenan/0 548 2012-08-23 21:35 Math-Subsets-List-1.
+005/META.yml

This seems to cause problems on Linux etc.

Please tell me what sequence of actions I can perform on a Windows machine with ActiveState Perl and GNU tar/gzip that will produce a tarball with the correct file permissions?

[Monk::Thomas]

I googled a bit and found this little gem:

Good news: There’s a standalone tar.exe among the UnixUtils suite (gzip’s there too). And in their characteristically absurd foresight, those devs included an arg to manually set the mode of things as they’re archived.
Bad news: it’s one arg that applies to everything.

tar --create --mode=777 -f "archive.tar" "TopDir"

Technically this exercise can end here. Adding everything as 777 will make scripts work, at the cost of executable jpegs and extra glowy terminals. To do it right though, we’ll have to make multiple passes, walking the tree and only add one kind of thing at a time (dirs, files, scripts).

-- http://www.misanthropicgeek.net/?p=882p/p

[Anonymous Monk]

There is Fix CPAN uploads for world writable

PAUSE deals with this by redoing the permissions and renames the tarball with withoutworldwriteables/withoutworldwritables and notifies the author files

[philiprbrenan]

Thank you - I have used the script successfully.

[Anonymous Monk]

Nothing :) whatever the problem is on linux, it is users problem, they need tar --no-same-permissions ...