Re: Wrong permissions
Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@eric.ath.cx> wrote:
>I'm a DD to be, waiting for the DAM to open my accounts. I want to
>adopt an orphaned package called crafty, a chess game player. i rebuild
>a new package since there's a new upstream code.
>
>The package installs opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Since the
>program also "learns" how to play, it regularly updates these opening
>books. Although I explicitely specified in debian/rules to change the
>permissions on those files to rw-rw-rw, my files in
>debian/tmp/var/lib/crafty are still rw-r--r--.
Mode 666? Are you really sure? I can't see any justification for that.
Perhaps use 664 instead and make the program setgid.
dh_fixperms is removing the extra write permissions - see its man page.
You either need to exclude some files or change their permissions after
calling dh_fixperms.
>I also noted all the files belong to me. Is it correct ?
Yes, because you can't chown() anything unless you're the superuser.
>If I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as root, files belong to root,
>which looks saner, but it doesn't ask for any GPG key.
Install the devscripts package and use 'debuild' instead, which has the
added bonus that it automatically does a lintian check for you.
A few other nits about the posted debian/rules:
> rm -rf debian/tmp debian/files* core debian/substvars
dh_clean will clean up all of these for you.
> dh_installdirs
[...]
> cd debian/tmp && install -d `cat ../dirs`
dh_installdirs should already have done this.
> install -s crafty debian/tmp/usr/games/crafty.bin
A DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip facility (see policy 4.1) would be nice
here.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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