Bug#133934: tetex-bin: doesn't work as a non-root user

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
> I don't want to do a dpkg-statoverride but a chmod in debian/rules.

You don't want to use dpkg-statoverride in a postinst; that command is
intended for the sysadmin to use.

Correct solution:

Include the directories with the correct permissions in the .deb.
Then if the sysadmin wants to change the permissions, they can use
dpkg-statoverride.

Or better still, do something like the following in the postinst:

VARTEXFONTS=`kpsewhich --expand-var='$VARTEXFONTS'`
if [ -n "$VARTEXFONTS" ]; then
  if [ ! -d "$VARTEXFONTS" ]; then
    texconfig font vardir "$VARTEXFONTS"
  fi
fi

   Julian

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