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Re: dpkg-capoverride (?)



Am 20.02.2015 um 11:30 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> Now I am worried about what other things in my system that I didn't
> discover yet will not work because of not using rsync -X.

> Do we have a list of packages where we use extended attributes?

I would try something like "grep setcap /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.p*"

> Would it worth to have a procedure like "dpkg-capoverride" so that
> whenever a package needs to change a capability, the change gets
> registered somewhere other than the filesystem itself?

Having a way to set caps in a declarative way and let dpkg handle the
setup would be nice imo.

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