Re: unexecutable debian scripts
Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: unexecutable debian scripts "):
> In message <[🔎] m0tx3Np-0002Z1C@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>, Ian Jackson writes:
> >rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu writes ("unexecutable debian scripts"):
> >> While examining the dpkg info directory, I happened to notice that a
> >> lot of the debian scripts are unexecutable.
> >You must have looked while packages were `unpacked'; dpkg chmods the
> >scripts to make them executable before it runs them, IIRC.
>
> Is this a "Just In Case" feature, or is this meant to imply that such
> scripts in the .deb packages _should not_ be executable?
It's a `just in case' feature. At the time I implemented this there
were many packages which were broken in this way.
I've changed dpkg-deb to refuse to build such packages :-).
Ian.
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Subject: Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed
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Raul Miller writes ("Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > > dpkg will not do anything to the permissions of files in /usr/bin - if
> > > the package is broken there dpkg won't fix it.
>
> Raul Miller:
> > I've had other cases in the last couple days where re-installing the
> > package fixed the problem
>
> That wasn't clear enough -- I've had other cases of executables not
> being executable in the last couple days, where re-installing the
> package fixed the problem.
!
Perhaps you made a mistake while doing a recursive chmod ?
Ian.
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