martin f krafft <madd...@debian.org> writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> [2010.02.04.1222 +1300]:
>> If you set the permissions with chown, aren't they overwritten every >> time the package is upgraded and then have to be reset again, leaving >> windows on every upgrade when they have the wrong permissions? > Maybe dpkg could be taught to preserve permissions on files that > already exist (i.e. on upgrades)? I suppose it's a question of what the best defaults are, but I prefer the behavior of assuming the ownership and permissions shipped in the package are correct and the installed files should be modified to match. The case where I want to preserve the existing permissions is much rarer than the case where the new version of the package needs to change the permissions for some reason, I think. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
