When doing a build it was noticed that the packages-split directory had these permissions: ls -ld build/busybox/packages-split drwxrwxrwx 14 rmacleod rmacleod 4096 Nov 28 11:49 build/busybox/packages-split Clearly this is a security concern since anyone could change your package content.
configure ... --enable-board=qemuppc --enable-rootfs=glibc-core --enable-kernel=standard make ls -ld build/busybox/packages-split