Bug#203532: tetex-extra: permissions of ls-R wrong
Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> schrieb:
> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-4.1
> Severity: normal
>
> 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. Both deal with ownership and permissions of ls-R
files set by mktexlsr, and for both we should contact Upstream,
shouldn't we?
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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