Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: >> > It used to be that tetex-bin created these subdirectories in postinst, and >> > thus a local admin could just change the permissions by hand and upgrades >> > wouldn't >> > touch them. Now tex-common ships them in the deb with hardcoded >> > permissions >> > 1777, which is wrong for this situation. >> >> Hm, is there any reason why we can't ship them as 2775, anyway? The >> local admin can use dpkg-statoverride if he really wants it >> world-writable (just as you can now to work around this bug). > > Nothing that comes to my mind immediately. Only how to choose the group? > Ship it as root.root, do we change the ownership of the directories on > dpkg-reconfigure tex-common?
That sounds sensible. We would use dpkg-statoverride, but would have to seed debconf by querying dpkg-statoverride's database. Or something like that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
