Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 04:23, Paul Baker wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:43 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > The *real* solution is to fix dpkg. Checking for being root is a broken
> > test. Checking if the current user has the appropriate access is a more
> > flexible and portable test.
>
> NO NO NO NO NO!!! It is absolutely needed. You don't get it. It is
> needed during the final packaging stages because when the built
> binaries are tar'd up, THEY HAVE TO BE OWNED BY ROOT because this tar
> is then extracted directly into the filesystem when that package is
> installed later on someone's machine. You do not want programs being
> installed into /usr/bin owned by some random user that had the same uid
> as some random developer. THEY HAVE TO BE OWNED BY ROOT!
Look, I get that bit *just fine*. As has already been stated, creating
tarballs with root owned files is very different to creating files as
root. Enough said.
> Once again, dpkg does NOT need to be fixed. Nothing needs to be fixed
> but your understanding of the debian package building process. Have you
> read the debian policy yet?
Much of. I'm not a debian developer though, so I hope you'll have a
dialog on this rather than shouting at me.
Rob
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