On 09-10-14 02:17, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> Thanks for the careful response. And no, as mentioned above, I didn't
>> mean to use dpkg-statoverride itself. dbconfig-common uses debconf and
>> ufc to manage the configuration files. However, dbcon
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Thanks for the careful response. And no, as mentioned above, I didn't
> mean to use dpkg-statoverride itself. dbconfig-common uses debconf and
> ufc to manage the configuration files. However, dbconfig-common checks
> with dpkg-statoverride if the configura
On 07-10-14 19:56, Paul Gevers wrote:
> I am trying to come up with a patch against dpkg-statoverride that sets
> the ownership and permissions upon creation, but not upon updates.
OOPS, what a stupid mistake to type. I meant dbconfig-common in the line
above.
@ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
Thank
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Paul Gevers wrote:
> I am trying to come up with a patch against dpkg-statoverride that sets
> the ownership and permissions upon creation, but not upon updates.
This really doesn't look like a good idea. In fact, it may well introduce
very confusing and likely dangerous beha
On 07-10-14 15:40, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Also I don't see in your references an explanation from anyone as to
> why dbconfig-common does this.
I you mean with "why": "why is it implemented this way" than that is
exactly the question that I am asking myself looking at the code, if you
mean "why does
Paul Gevers writes ("configuration files, ownership and dpkg-statoverride"):
> I am looking into dbconfig-common RC bug 720517 [1] and I was wondering
> what the general idea is of maintainer scripts changing the permissions
> and/or owners of configuration files and the use o
Hi,
I am looking into dbconfig-common RC bug 720517 [1] and I was wondering
what the general idea is of maintainer scripts changing the permissions
and/or owners of configuration files and the use of dpkg-statoverride. I
myself find it unacceptable that updating a package changes the
permissions/o
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