Re: How to handle permissions of configuration files in maintainer scripts?
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> when a maintainer script creates and possibly edits configuration files
> (of course not conffiles), what is the best way to set proper
> permissions (e.g. change ownership to a daemon user created by the
> package), while still preserving local admin's changes?
Check dpkg-statoverride database (using --list). If there is anything in
there, use that information. If not, set your defaults using
dpkg-statoverride --update.
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