On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:09:51PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > opal@debian.org (Ola Lundqvist) writes: > > > * You create a package: > > host-foo.deb > > > > * This package install things to /usr/share/systemdir in a special > > way. > > > > * The script is automaticly invoked on installation and the data > > in that dir is used to configure your system. > > > Sounds like this will solve a major nuisance for me because this will > enable an admin to undo any permission fixings by package postinst (i > especially hate the cdrtools postinst stuff for regularily fscking up > the system wide permissions i granted to all users). > > For example on my machines i *do* want the users to be allowed by > default to use what is usually forbidden, and has to be explicitly > allowed by an admin, on a vanilla Debian system. They should be able > to use a Debian system the same way they expect from a desktop system > like a Mac or Win9x PC. isn't dpkg-statoverride supposed to solve this issue? in potato i used to use suidregister for this, and then had apt call it as a Post-Invoke, that way it fixed any perms that were changed. dpkg-statoverride does not appear to have any method to check all overrides and see if they are reality on the filesystem or not... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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