Bug#203532: tetex-extra: permissions of ls-R wrong

[Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>]

>> Sure, but in the meantime why not make life easier for us users and
>> correct the permissions in *.postinst ?
>
>Because they will be messed up again each time mktexlsr is run. And this
>is done daily in /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin, which you wouldn't want to
>completely disable, too.

Then you could do this (as I just did, thanks for the pointer):

diff -pu /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin\~ /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin
--- /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin~  2002-04-13 13:42:27.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin   2003-07-31 14:10:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ if [ -x "/usr/bin/mktexlsr" ]; then
     for dbfile in ${LSRDBS}; do
       case "$dbfile" in
         /usr/local*) continue ;;
-        *) /usr/bin/mktexlsr $dbfile > /dev/null ;;
+        *) /usr/bin/mktexlsr $dbfile > /dev/null
+          # do this until mktexlsr is fixed
+          chgrp other $dbfile/ls-R
+          ;;
       esac
     done
   else

By the way, the correct name for the variable should be dbpath, or
dbdir, not dbfile.