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

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> schrieb:

>>> 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):
>
> +          chgrp other $dbfile/ls-R

Unfortunately it isn't that simple. We would first have to load
dh_confmodule, get the answer the user gave at install time ("Which
group should own the ls-R files?") and chgrp to this. Maybe the others
can comment on this (I'm not the official maintainer, anyway), but I
think we should find a clean solution, not only a workaround.

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

You're right, thanks.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie