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• appendices/dependencies.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/python.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

appendices/dependencies.xml

@@ -31 +31 @@
   the test suites. The fourth list of dependencies are packages that require
   this package to be built and installed in its final location before they are
-  built and installed. In most cases, this is because these packages will hard
-  code paths to binaries within their scripts. If not built in a certain order,
-  this could result in paths of /tools/bin/[binary] being placed inside scripts
-  installed to the final system. This is obviously not desirable.</para>
+  built and installed.</para>
 
   <para>The last list of dependencies are optional packages that are not

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
     -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2023-12-04</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[thomas] - Modify commands for install Python docs to avoid
+          too restrictive permissions on the files and dirs.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem revision='sysv'>
       <para>2023-12-01</para>

chapter08/python.xml

@@ -156 +156 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html
 
-tar --strip-components=1  \
-    --no-same-owner       \
-    --no-same-permissions \
-    -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html \
-    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
+tar --no-same-owner \
+    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2
+cp -R --no-preserve=mode python-&python-version;-docs-html/* \
+    /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -166 +165 @@
 
     <varlistentry>
-      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> and <option>--no-same-permissions</option></term>
+      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> (tar) and <option>--no-preserve=mode</option> (cp)</term>
       <listitem>
         <para>Ensure the installed files have the correct ownership and
         permissions.  Without these options, <application>tar</application>
-        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values.
+        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values
+        and files would have restrictive permissions.
         </para>
       </listitem>