To give everyone an idea of how much simpler the package scripts are
that don't use dpkg-statoverride to set permissions, here is the example
from the policy document:
postinst:
for i in /usr/bin/foo /usr/sbin/bar
do
# only do something when no setting exists
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $i >/dev/null 2>&1
then
#include: debconf processing, question about foo and bar
if [ "$RET" = "true" ] ; then
dpkg-statoverride --update --add sysuser root 4755 $i
fi
fi
done
The corresponding code to remove the override when the package is
purged would be:
for i in /usr/bin/foo /usr/sbin/bar
do
if dpkg-statoverride --list $i >/dev/null 2>&1
then
dpkg-statoverride --remove $i
fi
done
And here is what it would be with chown/chmod instead:
postinst:
for i in /usr/bin/foo /usr/sbin/bar
do
# only do something when no setting exists
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $i >/dev/null 2>&1
then
#include: debconf processing, question about foo and bar
if [ "$RET" = "true" ] ; then
chown sysuser:root $i
chmod 4755 $i
fi
fi
done
The corresponding code to remove the override when the package is
purged would be: nothing.
-Brandon
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