walling/xregexp — Issue #1: npm cannot read broken tarball
Author: lautgesetz
Created: 2012-03-09 11:26:55+00:00
State: open

I cannot install 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 because of permission errors:

npm ERR! message EACCES, permission denied '/var/folders/k4/jygshhks3lb_0vbngk4f9vrm0000gn/T/npm-1331292175882/1331292175882-0.5940363304689527/___package.npm/package/src/xregexp-matchrecursive.js'

This is because the src directory in the tarball is chmod 666, i.e., its exec bit is not set, so it's not possible to get any of the files inside of it. This renders the module unusable via npm, which is how most people presumably want to get it. :-)