diff -r 911b3a703497 -r bbfd61c12916 scripts/functions
--- a/scripts/functions	Mon Dec 20 00:07:29 2010 +0100
+++ b/scripts/functions	Thu Mar 03 23:46:03 2011 +0100
@@ -681,11 +681,6 @@
         *)            CT_Abort "Don't know how to handle '${basename}${ext}': unknown extension";;
     esac
 
-    # Some tarballs have read-only files... :-(
-    # Because of nochdir, we don't know where we are, so chmod all
-    # the src tree
-    CT_DoExecLog DEBUG chmod -R u+w "${CT_SRC_DIR}"
-
     # Don't mark as being extracted for git
     case "${ext}" in
         /.git)  ;;