On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:59:17AM +0200, Lars Behrens wrote: > Package: emacsen-common > Version: 21.4a+1-3etch1 > > Installation of emacs21 fails because there is a "chown: ???root:staff???" > which > doesn't work, because there is no such group here. > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0,, kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64
Looking at some emacsen-common bugs, This seems a problem in your system, as a matter of fact what emacsen-common does is described as an example in Debian policy document, http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html ------------------- 9.1.2 Site-specific programs ... The /usr/local directory itself and all the subdirectories created by the package should (by default) have permissions 2775 (group-writable and set-group-id) and be owned by root.staff. ------------------- base-files.postinst should have created the base local stuff with exactly those permissions and, according to its changelog, this seems to have been this way sice 1998. As I see no reference in base-files about addition of that group, I suppose it comes from the very early Debian days. Is that still happening at your site? -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
