2.0 RC5 and Package directory permissions

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After 4 hours of futzing with various permissions on the /Packages folder in order to install a single mod  I give up...

I have root access.. Apache runs as nobody but even shelling in as root

chgrp nobody ./Packages
chown 777 ./Packages
cd ./Packages
chgrp nobody ./*
chown 777 ./*

So both owner and group have full permissions yes ? and of course so does everyone else.

One would think it would have sufficient permissions ?

I can download/upload package, both with "Simple Machines Third-party Mod Site" and the normal Browse files on my computer.. I can see the file was uploaded

I can even click the "List files" link to see a list of files in the .zip file I uploaded..  but if I click "Install mod"  I get  " You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!  "

Not writable ? it just &^%*&%*'ING!  did !

Exactly what file permissions is it looking at? and if chmod 777 ./* does not make it writable I will eat my entire copy of printed out linux man pages including translations in 4 languages.

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argh argh argh...

Needed to create a temp directory within the /Packages  directory...   

OY!