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Re: Preferred way to do a chown on package's dirs ?



Le Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:12:42PM +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> I'm not sure I can find authoritative information on how a packager
> should change the ownership (chown) of a shipped directory.
> 
> Of course this can be done in the package's postinst.

It may actually have to, if there is a possibility that the directory
already exists and has a different ownership, because in that case dpkg
will preserve it on install/upgrade.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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