Re: dpkg-statoverride question

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Brian May wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > That looks weird.  Perhaps you could remove the '>/dev/null' and also
> > put in a call to dpkg-statoverride followed by "echo $?" so we can see
> > what's happening?
>
> I think the override is getting deleted somewhere (not by me).
>
> Once my postinst script crashed, and there was no override.
>
> I change the code to:
>
>         adduser --system --home /var/lib/amavis --no-create-home amavis
>         echo adduser returned $?
>         for i in /var/lib/amavis /var/lib/amavis/virusmails /var/run/amavis
>         do
>                 if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $i
>                 then
>                         echo "dpkg-statoverride(a) returned $?"
>                         dpkg-statoverride --update --add amavis root 755 $i
>                         echo "dpkg-statoverride(b) returned $?"
>                 fi
>                 echo "dpkg-statoverride(c) returned $?"
>         done
>
> and get:

maintainer scripts are not supposed to dpkg-statoverride.  You set the perms
in the deb, when building it.  Local admins then call dpkg-statoverride to
change it.