Bug 546871: Make checksetup.pl not try to fix the permissions of

Bugzilla/Install/Filesystem.pm

@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ sub FILESYSTEM {
         'docs/style.css'       => { perms => $ws_readable },
         'docs/*/rel_notes.txt' => { perms => $ws_readable },
         'docs/*/README.docs'   => { perms => $owner_readable },
-        "$datadir/bugzilla-update.xml" => { perms => $ws_writeable },
         "$datadir/params" => { perms => $ws_writeable },
         "$datadir/old-params.txt" => { perms => $owner_readable },
         "$extensionsdir/create.pl" => { perms => $owner_executable },

Bugzilla/Update.pm

@@ -34,19 +34,14 @@ sub get_notifications {
     # Update the local XML file if this one doesn't exist or if
     # the last modification time (stat[9]) is older than TIME_INTERVAL.
     if (!-e $local_file || (time() - (stat($local_file))[9] > TIME_INTERVAL)) {
-        # Are we sure we didn't try to refresh this file already
-        # but we failed because we cannot modify its timestamp?
-        my $can_alter = (-e $local_file) ? utime(undef, undef, $local_file) : 1;
-        if ($can_alter) {
         unlink $local_file; # Make sure the old copy is away.
+        if (-e $local_file) {
+            return { error => 'no_update', xml_file => $local_file };
+        }
         my $error = _synchronize_data();
         # If an error is returned, leave now.
         return $error if $error;
     }
-        else {
-            return {'error' => 'no_update', 'xml_file' => $local_file};
-        }
-    }
 
     # If we cannot access the local XML file, ignore it.
     return {'error' => 'no_access', 'xml_file' => $local_file} unless (-r $local_file);