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Re: CHowning files - or not?



On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:43:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 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 :)

Oh.  Right.  Sowwy :)

G'luck,
Peter

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