updating GID owner of directories

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

Hello!

I found that when dpkg is upgrading a package, it could not
restore the GID owner of contained directories to the new
version in the package:

bilbo:/tmp# dpkg --contents base-files_3.0.3_hurd-i386.deb | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt root/root         0 2002-06-04 15:42:18 ./tmp/
drwxrwxrwt root/root         0 2002-06-04 15:42:18 ./var/tmp/
bilbo:/tmp# dpkg -i base-files_3.0.3_hurd-i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 21633 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace base-files 3.0.3 (using base-files_3.0.3_hurd-i386.deb) ...Unpacking replacement base-files ...
Setting up base-files (3.0.3) ...

bilbo:/tmp# ls -ndl .
drwxrwxrwt    3 0        1000         4096 Jun  4 15:42 .
bilbo:/tmp#

GID of /tmp was 1000 and hasn't been updated. I guess this is a bug
but i'm not sure if this is the expected behaviour, could you
clarify this?

thanks,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992


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