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Re: CHowning files - or not?



On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:23:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Dominik George <dev@naturalnik.de> (26/02/2010):
> > OK, as it is done in postinst, there does not seem to be a
> > difference to my current chown setup. dpkg-statoverride will make
> > sure that the permissions are set everytiem the file is
> > re-installed, but chown in postinst will as well ...
> 
> And will nuke possible local changes?

Erm, surely the script would check with dpkg-statoverride --list
before setting the permissions, as described in Policy 10.9.1 :)

G'luck,
Peter

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