Stephen Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The postinst script does several chown and chmod operations on > subdirectories of /usr/local/share/. If these fail, the script > fails (it runs with sh -e) and the package installation fails. This > is too severe, as the chown/chmod failure can be innocuous. > > I have my /usr/local/share mounted on a VFAT partition. The VFAT > file system doesn't have the concept of file owner or modes. The > Linux kernel reports all chown and chmod operations here as failing. > > But failing to do a chown or chmod of these directories is not > important enough to cause package installation to fail on any file > system.
Before I'd be willing to change this, I'd need to hear from debian-policy that such a change would be acceptable. Current policy specifies both the "set -e" (6.1) and these specific permissions on /usr/local/ and its subdirectories (9.1.2): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html I'm copying this to debian-policy so that they may comment. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
