* Russ Allbery ([email protected]) [120512 23:06]: > Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > > > Unless we expect that two different binary packages that can be > > co-installed will distribute the same directory under different > > ownership or permissions for a good reason, why not simply let dpkg > > apply ownership and permissions found in data.tar.{gz|bz2|xz}, > > Usually because the UID is dynamically assigned and the user is created in > the postinst, so there's no way for dpkg do do this at unpack. > > You would need to apply permissions by name, not UID/GID, and you would > need to create all users in preinst prior to unpack, which would require > Pre-Depends on adduser with all the complexity that entails. I haven't > thought through that path to see if there are any other problems.
Wouldn't it be sensible to describe which user(s) a programm needs as well not by "adduser $user" but in a more abstract syntax and let dpkg handle all of that? Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
