Re: dpkg and file ownership

[Alf Werder <alf@knusperfisch.de>]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 05:26, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:25:32PM +0100, Alf Werder wrote:
> > How does dpkg handle the upgrade of a package, if file ownership und
> > access permissions of an installed file was changed manually? Does it
> > keep the modified state, asks me or just reinstall the old ownership and
> > access permissions?
> 
> It steps on them, as it should.  If you don't want it to, you need to tell
> it that.
> 
> # man dpkg-statoverride
> 
> is your friend.

Thank you very much. I am new to debian and that is _exactly_ what I am
looking for. The more I learn, the more I love debian.

-alf