On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:25:37PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:39:12PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > | > dpkg-statoverride is a tool for the system administrator to specify a > | > different mode or ownership for a file to that which is provided in the > | > package. It is not meant to be used by the package. > | > | there are cases where it's appropriate for a package to use it. for > | example, if the package creates the user that is supposed to own a file, > | and later changes the ownership to that user in the maintscripts. > > If so, create the user in preinst and it'll work just fine. the next sentence, which you conveniently cut out, explains exactly why this won't work just fine :) sean
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