Re: apt-get --reinstall ...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Heath wrote:
> > dpkg has internal tar extraction support. If it is not restoring directory
> > permissions, than that is bug. However, I doubt this, as that part of the
> > code is straightforward.
>
> Dpkg does not change the permissions of existing directories. Ever, as
> far as I know. Perhaps it should have a flag to make it do that, for the
> times when you've got screwed up directory perms.
Is there a Real Good Reason(TM) for that? Especialy now that we have
dpkg-statoverride and would expect non-overriden perms to be reset to their
proper ones?
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