Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?
I may be wrong, but as far as I understood, dh_fixperms is responsible
for changing the owner of the files :
$man dh_fixperms
[...] It makes all files be owned by
root, and it removes group and other write permission from
all files. [...]
Nicolas.
Steve McWilliams wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have read through the debian packaging documentation and am playing
> around with it currently, however I have not yet figured out how to
> control the ownership of files installed from a binary debian package.
> I realize that normally installed package files should be owned by root,
> however I assume that exceptions are allowed for.
>
> When I create my package, using "dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot", the
> relevent debian/tmp files are owned by my user account (not root), however
> after running "dpkg -i <package_name>" as root, these files are installed
> with root ownership.
>
> Note that I used dh_make to create my initial debian control files. The
> debian/rules file had a reference to dh_fixperms which seemed like it
> might be the culprit here. However, commenting out the call to dh_fixperms
> does not seem to make a difference.
>
> I know the problem could be solved via a postinst script, but that doesn't
> seem like a good solution to me.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve McWilliams
> stevemc@radix.net
>
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