[tex-live] Re: ls-R file get strange permissions

[Karl Berry]

    all the babel files became -r--------

Argh.  I don't understand this.  Only Sebastian really knows p4 :(.
Maybe poke around perforce.com and/or the web in general?  (I'm kind of
stuck right now and can't do it.)

    noallwrite clobber nocompress unlocked modtime rmdir

Same for me.  I don't think any of those affect readability, anyway.

    [~] p4 -V
    Perforce - The Fast Software Configuration Management System.
    Copyright 1995, 2004 Perforce Software.  All rights reserved.
    Rev. P4/LINUX24X86/2004.2/69739 (2004/10/01).

Well, we have an older version on tug.  It would be quite sad if that
is the problem.

    tug$ p4 -V
    Perforce - The Fast Software Configuration Management System.
    Copyright 1995, 1999 Perforce Software.  All rights reserved.
    Rev. P4/LINUXX86/99.1/9934 (1999/03/08).

I temporarily copied the binary I'm using to ftp://tug.org/private/p4.
Can you grab it and see if it changes anything?