Re: dpkg-statoverride vs. suidmanager
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> What if such a package is upgraded using an older version of dpkg
> though?
The preinst will bomb since dpkg-statoverride either doesn't exist
or will abort due to an illegal option. The
> It used to contain a binary that is registered with
> suidregister. The new version of the package will contain the binary,
> but the binary will be suid.
No, the preinst will bomb and dpkg won't even unpack the new version.
> So the only choice I can see is to require that all such packages that used
> to use suidregister have a versioned dependancy on dpkg.
pre-dependency even.
Wichert.
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