[CMake] CMake/CPack 2.8.4 - Windows - Can't package files as read-only?

[Alan Garny]

> > Ok, I have just given it a try and... it's working fine. From there, I
> > thought I would check the contents of the _CPack_Packages folder which
> > is created when running my CMakeLists.txt file. That folder contains a
> > win32 folder which itself contains both a ZIP and NSIS folder. Both of
> > these folders eventually contain my read-only files with... the right
> > permissions (i.e. read-only). However, these files, when
> > unzipped/installed from the ZIP/NSIS files, don't have the right
> > permissions (i.e. read-write rather than read-only), as previously
> > mentioned. So, I get the feeling that the problem is with the ZIP/NSIS
> > generation. In fact, I have had a quick look at the project.nsi file
> > which got generated and I couldn't see anything that sets the
> > permissions for my read-only files (something which should have been
> > added, I believe -- at least, I had to do it for another project where I
had to
> create a .nsi file 'by hand').
> 
> Ok thank you for this investigation.
> This is worth a bug report, however if ZIP is working on Linux I do not
see why it
> shouldn't work on Windows because it's created with the very same
libarchive.

Sure, but as you know there are some differences between the two operating
systems, especially when it comes to permissions. So, maybe the ZIP library
doesn't handle permissions properly on Windows...?

> For NSIS the story is different and as you noted may be the generated NSIS
file
> must be fixed in order to put appropriate permission.
> 
> However as far as I know CPack generator do not handle file permissions
> themselves, they do rely on what they find the _CPack_Packages/ specific
> subdirs. So if the permission are properly set in there they should be
preserved
> by the CPack generator.

As mentioned last time, the permissions are properly set for my files under
_CPack_Packages\win32\NSIS and _CPack_Packages\win32\ZIP, so for me the
problem is related to the NSIS script and the ZIP library themselves.
Anyway, I am going to create a bug report sometime today or tomorrow, with a
CMake/CPack file that can reproduce the problem.

Alan