[ros-users] request for help: mirroring and better wiki exporting

[Brian Gerkey]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Ken Tossell <ktossell at umd.edu> wrote:
>> The archives all specify that users other than the owner and those in
>> the owning group should not have any permissions on the files, so the
>> web server, which runs as a different user, can't access anything.
>> Unfortunately I don't see any way to make tar ignore the permission
>> flags, so a really long chmod -R a+rX is needed.
>
> Looks like an artifact of the way that the Moin export tool works. I
> added two lines to the dump script, before the exported wiki content
> gets tarred up:
>  find $export_dir/roswiki/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
>  find $export_dir/roswiki/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
> That ought to remove the need to chmod it at your end.
>
> The new weekly export (with this change) is running now; should be
> ready in a couple of hours.

I just spot-checked the latest roswiki.tar.gz, and the permissions
look good now.

	brian.