On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:50:25AM +0200, M G Berberich wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not sure if I'm welcome her, because I'm not maintaining a > official debian-package but trying to make .deb's out of my tools. > > I have a tool that needs a directory /var/log/ppplog. It is contained > in data.tar.gz, but tar does not set the required right on the > directory (right?). So I set the right in the postinst script.
Why is it not correct? Did you build the package as root or under fakeroot, or as a normal user? Have you read the various packaging guides found on http://www.debian.org/devel/? > The package also puts a executable in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d. Building the > binary leads to a complain about an executable in unusual place (or > so). Can I prevent this? Are there naming-conventions for script in > /etc/ppp/ip-down.d? What complains? If it's lintian and what you're doing is correct, don't worry about it. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
