On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:12:48PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I'm packaging the new version of mirrormagic, which has a series of data
> directories all with the setgid bit set (mode g+s). In particular it needs
> setgid for writing high scores to /var/lib/games/mirrormagic, which has
> a hierarchy of subdirectories underneath them, also setgid.
> I want to be able to set /var/lib/games/mirrormagic with something like
> chmod -R g+rws, recursively into all subdirectories.
If it needs it, that's how it should be in the .deb. Make sure that
dh_fixperms doesn't break it, though!
dpkg-statoverride is only for the sysadmin to change things *from*
their normal settings.
Julian
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