Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
What about the following patch?
Index: config.in
===================================================================
--- config.in (Revision 501)
+++ config.in (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@
fi
fi
done
+ # for future comparison, we save away whether there was an old debconf
+ # managed name
+ OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP=""
+ db_get tex-common/groupname || true
+ test -n "$RET" && OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP="$RET" || true
+ # We also test and save which group /var/cache/fonts/ls-R currently
belongs to
+ OLD_SYSTEM_GROUP="$(ls -l /var/cache/fonts/ls-R | cut -d ' ' -f 5)"
+
# $iscommongroup will be empty only if there were 2 or 3 group-writable
# ls-R files belonging to different groups.
db_set tex-common/groupname "$iscommongroup" || true
@@ -122,6 +130,50 @@
#
db_input low tex-common/groupname || true
db_go
+
+ # Now we have to check whether we should ask the question about changing
+ # group ownership of /var/cache/fonts.
+ if echo "$SELECTED_LSR" | grep -q cache; then
+ # we do handle the ls-R file for that tree. Is there a common groupname?
+ db_get tex-common/groupname || true
+ if [ -n "$RET" ]; then
+ CACHE_GROUP="$RET"
+ if [ -z "$OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP" ] && [ "$OLD_SYSTEM_GROUP" = "root" ]; then
+ # install default
+ HANDLE_GROUP=true
+ elif [ -n "$OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP" ] && [ "$OLD_SYSTEM_GROUP" =
"$OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP" ]; then
+ if [ "$OLD_DEBCONF_GROUP" = "$CACHE_GROUP" ];
+ # nothing changed
+ HANDLE_GROUP=false
+ else
+ # the user changes from one consistent setting to an other, via
debconf
+ HANDLE_GROUP=true
+ fi
+ else
+ # the old debconf setting and the actual system setting are different.
+ # we don't touch anything. Either the directories already belong to
the
+ # newly selected group, or debconf and real information differ, and
we
+ # won't spoil manual changes.
+ HANDLE_GROUP=false
+ fi
+ else
+ # no group chosen, no action
+ :
+ fi
+ else
+ # font cache not managed, no action
+ :
+ fi
+ if [ "$HANDLE_GROUP" = true ]; then
+ db_subst tex-common/cachegroup cachegroup ${CACHE_GROUP} || true
+ db_input low tex-common/cachegroup ||true
+ db_go
+ else
+ db-set tex-common/cachegroup false || true
+ fi
+ else
+ # no common group chosen
+ :
fi
fi
fi
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
