On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:11:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm a DD to be, waiting for the DAM to open my accounts. I want to > >adopt an orphaned package called crafty, a chess game player. i rebuild > >a new package since there's a new upstream code. > > > >The package installs opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Since the > >program also "learns" how to play, it regularly updates these opening > >books. Although I explicitely specified in debian/rules to change the > >permissions on those files to rw-rw-rw, my files in > >debian/tmp/var/lib/crafty are still rw-r--r--. > > Mode 666? Are you really sure? I can't see any justification for that. > Perhaps use 664 instead and make the program setgid.
I'm not sure I understand. All files belong to group "root", so making the opening books files setgid doesn't help. Maybe I have to create a new group called "chess" and chown root.chess debian/tmp/var/lib/crafty, then add the chessplayers to this group. Any idea ? > > dh_fixperms is removing the extra write permissions - see its man page. > You either need to exclude some files or change their permissions after > calling dh_fixperms. > This worked fine, ok. > A few other nits about the posted debian/rules: > > > rm -rf debian/tmp debian/files* core debian/substvars > > dh_clean will clean up all of these for you. Changed > > > dh_installdirs > [...] > > cd debian/tmp && install -d `cat ../dirs` > > dh_installdirs should already have done this. > Changed > > install -s crafty debian/tmp/usr/games/crafty.bin > > A DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip facility (see policy 4.1) would be nice > here. Added too. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric Van Buggenhaut - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't open them. Use instead open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome.
