Re: Bad permissions on /tmp
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 08:41:24PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Ooops! I thought that was "dpkg-source". Still, it is something a
> don't particular like, and as I infrequently use dpkg-deb -x, it could
> really catch me by surprise and damage permissions, as illustrated
> in this thread.
If I understand it right, this only happens if you dpkg-deb -x something
to the current directory. Just tell it to use a subdirectory.
(dpkg-deb -x always asks for a directory argument).
Richard Braakman
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