Re: dpkg-statoverride question

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:57:36PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better and nicer to generate the user in preinst if
>> it does not exist (getent passwd sysuser > /dev/null || code to add
>> user) and set permissions and owner in the deb-file?

> How do you set the user in the deb file?

> You need the user on the build system too...

I see, I forgot that.
 
> However chances are, the user does not exist on the build system.
[...]

I think I'll write a wishlist bugreport for dpkg - it is no
problem to do this with rpm without having the user on the build
system:

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%files
%attr(755,fooo,baar)    %{_initrddir}/blah
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                 cu andreas
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