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

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