In ticket #013271 we tried to fix all permission issues in 4.x

But in 4.1 they are back. One reason could be because we use the ezcarchive now.

In my example package.xml is not writable. Right after the installation of a new system.

bash-3.2$ ls -lisa var/storage/packages/eZ-systems/
total 36
110694722 4 drwxrwxrwx 9 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 .
110694718 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ..
110695958 4 drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_banners
110694772 4 drwxrwxrwx 5 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_classes
110695994 4 drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_democontent
110696104 4 drwxrwxrwx 5 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_design_blue
110696078 4 drwxrwxrwx 5 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_design_gray
110694838 4 drwxrwxrwx 5 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_extension
110694732 4 drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ezwebin_site
bash-3.2$ ls -lisa var/storage/packages/eZ-systems/ezwebin_site/
.cache/ documents/ files/ package.xml settings/
bash-3.2$ ls -lisa var/storage/packages/eZ-systems/ezwebin_site/
total 28
110694732 4 drwxrwxrwx 6 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 .
110694722 4 drwxrwxrwx 9 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 ..
110694768 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 .cache
110694734 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 documents
110694738 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 files
110694766 4 rw-rr- 1 apache apache 2868 Jun 11 2008 package.xml
110694750 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Mar 18 09:01 settings