dpkg, non-root user, and chown
Hi All,
I've a special goal : to use dpkg as our packaging & deploy main utility
here.
A non-root user is responsible for building & installing software on
shared resources.
Users will load & execute applications (and libraries) using a special
environment file and accessing read-only the above mentioned shared
resource.
For that goal I'd like to elaborate and expect your comments on this
precise point : dpkg management of owner/group during package
installation.
Packages are created conforming to Debian Policy
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-binarypkg.html).
Inside data.tar.gz file are owned by the (special) user who did the
build (not a user, but a administrative account in our service).
Dpkg shall then install those files with that particular owner.
I launch dpkg with the --force-not-root option.
But I get errors like :
error setting ownership of `whatever': Not owner
In dpkg source code this is (maybe I'm wrong) located in archive.c :
src/archives.c:273: ohshite(_("error setting ownership of `
%.255s'"),ti->Name);
src/archives.c:667: ohshite(_("error setting ownership of `
%.255s'"),ti->Name);
src/archives.c:712: ohshite(_("error setting ownership of symlink `
%.255s'"),ti->Name);
src/archives.c:717: ohshite(_("error setting ownership of symlink `
%.255s'"),ti->Name);
I've read the dpkg-statoverride man page.
But is there a method to install files like they are in package, without
using dpkg-statoverride ? A simple option to dpkg ?
Best regards
Michel
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