Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Browning
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if > the default has to be changed should dpkg-statoverride be used, > which can be either because the local admin wants something different, > or because a debconf or postinst script asked

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > Okay, now *I'm* confused. If dpkg is getting the default permissions > from the package itself, doesn't that imply that Rob needs to ship the > file "properly sgid mail"? He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if the default has to be chan

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-May-01, 09:37 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Rob Browning wrote: > > I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for > > the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid > > mail. So which interpretation is correct? > > Neith

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Rob Browning wrote: > I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for > the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid > mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The reason you always had to call suidregister was that that was also the mom

dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Browning
Are there any other docs than the manpage. I think I may have misinterpreted them (some elaboration there would be helpful). What's the proper usage of dpkg-statoverride? lintian told me that I should kill off emacs20's usage of suidregister in favor of dpkg-statoverride, so I presumed that mea