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CHANGES: add release note for the permissions

Message ID 1436787388-24414-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be
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Arnout Vandecappelle July 13, 2015, 11:36 a.m. UTC
Since the rsync of skeleton or rootfs now changes the permissions of
the copied files and directories, this may break existing setups that
rely on these permissions being kept. So add a release not explaining
how it should be done.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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 CHANGES | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Comments

Baruch Siach July 13, 2015, 11:39 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi Arnout,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 01:36:28PM +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> Since the rsync of skeleton or rootfs now changes the permissions of
> the copied files and directories, this may break existing setups that
> rely on these permissions being kept. So add a release not explaining

note

> how it should be done.

baruch
Thomas Petazzoni July 13, 2015, 3:03 p.m. UTC | #2
Dear Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind),

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:36:28 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> Since the rsync of skeleton or rootfs now changes the permissions of
> the copied files and directories, this may break existing setups that
> rely on these permissions being kept. So add a release not explaining
> how it should be done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> ---
>  CHANGES | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

I've fixed the commit log as suggested by Baruch and applied, thanks!

Thomas
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3f5162e..1e94929 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ 
+2015.08-rc1, not yet released
+
+	Fixes all over the tree and new features.
+
+	Infrastructure: Buildroot takes better care now of generating
+	predictable permissions in the target filesystem. However,
+	existing permissions on a custom skeleton or rootfs overlay
+	will no longer be preserved. Therefore, it is necessary to
+	add a permission table (BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE) to set
+	the required permissions.
+
 2015.05, Released May 31st, 2015
 
 	Minor fixes.