On May 7, 2010, at 6:00 AM, openbios-request@openbios.org wrote:
On 5/6/10, Programmingkid programmingkidx@gmail.com wrote:
I made a change to the documentation on the page http://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS. I added a step in the Building OpenBIOS section to make the switch-arch script executable. I was wondering if it is possible to download OpenBIOS with the script being executable without the user having to change it permissions. This would save some time and frustration.
The permissions are already set up correctly: $ svn proplist config/scripts/switch-arch Properties on 'config/scripts/switch-arch': svn:executable
So the problem is actually with the program creating the zip, or maybe the zip format itself misses any executability bits.
I am betting it is with the program creating the zip. I did a little test on my computer to see if I could preserve the permissions of a file inside a zip file. The test was a success.
The improvement with the documentation should compensate for the program's issues.