Re: CHowning files - or not?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
> 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 :)
I'm pretty sure KiBi was referring to the chown method :)
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