On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > This is normal dpkg behaviour. > > You should get the right permissions if you reinstall the system from > scratch using base-files_3.0.3 (alternatively, you can change them > yourself by hand). As far as base-files is concerned, this is fixed.
Yes, base-files seems correct to me as its directories are GID root: > > bilbo:/tmp# dpkg --contents base-files_3.0.3_hurd-i386.deb | grep tmp > > drwxrwxrwt root/root 0 2002-06-04 15:42:18 ./tmp/ > > drwxrwxrwt root/root 0 2002-06-04 15:42:18 ./var/tmp/ but dpkg is expected to update file permissions/owners isn't it? > [ If there are still basehurd.tgz tarballs floating around using 3.0.2 > not having the right permissions, the tarball should be re-created ]. well that fixes the problem for us. i'll ask the dpkg people about this possible bug though. cheers, -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd