Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Küster
severity 294197 important thanks This is a candidate that we should try to get fixed in etch. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-05-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:14:21PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > > >> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this > > >> inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. > > > In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do > > > anyt

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Küster
Hallo Uwe, I wrote: > >> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this > >> inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. > > In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do > > anything in $HOME, be it mine or root's and regardle

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
tags 294197 pending thanks Uwe Zeisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this >> inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. > In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do > anything

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-02-09 Thread Uwe Zeisberger
Hello Frank, Frank Kster wrote: > you can use sudo's option -H. Yes, I know this option, but I use it hardly ever. And so only in the rarest cases I think to use it to upgrade tex. > Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this > inconvenience. But I don't know which

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-02-08 Thread Frank Küster
Uwe Zeisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The problem here is, that > > a) sudo doesn't unset HOME (which is for most cases a good behaviour) you can use sudo's option -H. > b) mktexlsr obiously uses ${HOME}/texmf and is not affected by umask[1] > > (I'm not sure, if b) alone is already a b

Bug#294197: upgrading tetex creates ls-R in user homedir if sudo is used

2005-02-08 Thread Uwe Zeisberger
Package: tetex-base Version: 2.0.2c-6 Severity: minor Hello, whenever I upgrade tetex via `sudo apt-get upgrade` it creates the file ${HOME}/texmf/ls-R with owner=root and mode 600: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/texmf$ ls -l total 0 drwx-- 3 zeisberg users 18 Jan 12 08:58 tex [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/texm