Brandon <winterkni...@nerdshack.com> writes: > As for setting permissions for files with dynamic ids, debian policy > says that dpkg-statoverride is necessary. This is not true, or at least > misleading. Certainly the post install script should check to make sure > that there isn't any override in place before setting file permissions, > but I think it would be better to set permissions with chown and chmod > than dpkg-statoverride.
If you set the permissions with chown, aren't they overwritten every time the package is upgraded and then have to be reset again, leaving windows on every upgrade when they have the wrong permissions? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
