Bug#203532: tetex-extra: permissions of ls-R wrong
On 31.07.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> schrieb:
Hi,
> > I get these messages upon upgrade:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Fixing permissions and group of ls-R as specified by debconf ...
> > mode of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
> > mode of `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R' changed to 0664 (rw-rw-r--)
> > changed group of `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R' to users
> > changed group of `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R' to users
> >
> > Setting up tetex-doc (2.0.2-4.1) ...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Done.
> >
> > Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2-4.1) ...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
> > mktexlsr: Done.
> > Running initex for missing formats. This may take some time. ...
> > Output of initex is in /var/tmp/texNvqyDf
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > and in the end I get this:
> >
> > /var/cache/fonts:
> > used 28 available 1658376
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 30 19:41 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jun 4 10:49 ..
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5723 Jul 30 19:41 ls-R
> >
> > Notice that ls-R should belong to the users group. Same goes for ls-R
> > in /var/lib/texmf. I suspect that tetex does the right thing, but then
> > either tetex-doc or tetex-extra change the group of ls-R.
>
> No, I think this is the same problem as in Bug #198549, which, in turn,
> is related to #198546.
>
So, should we merge these 3 bugs? Will you forward the patch to TE
and ask him, what to do?
Hilmar
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