Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

1999-11-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 09:42:41AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Adam>Also note that all files registered by this program > Adam> will *not* be suid in the resulting .deb file. The postinst > Adam> of the package will set their permissions (even if the user > Adam> doesn't have

Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

1999-11-27 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, and -no-. If you put fixperms after suidregister, you undo its work. Also, fixperms establishes a "perm baseline" that you modify by adding calls to chown and chmod after fixperms and before suidregister. You make this change, you break that. It works nicely :) Don't break it :) It's not brok

Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

1999-11-27 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> From the dh_suidregister manpage: Adam>Also note that all files registered by this program Adam> will *not* be suid in the resulting .deb file. The postinst Adam> of the package will set their permissions (even i

Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

1999-11-27 Thread Adam Klein
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 06:15:04PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 2.0.74 > > On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:26:50PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Julian> Note the dh_fixperms is at the end of this seque

debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

1999-11-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: debhelper Version: 2.0.74 On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:26:50PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Julian> Note the dh_fixperms is at the end of this sequence, and > Julian> must be: Debian packages should not ship with any spec

policy 3.5 and error messages

1999-11-27 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello List Policy section 3.5 isn't very clear about what to do when an error occurs. Should I really just say: "Starting proxy cache: wwwoffle ... failed" ? Can I put a "\tSee syslog or wwwoffle.log for reasons ?" In the line below ? E.g. I hate it when I'm starting apache and it simlpy tells me

Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-27 Thread Brian May
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Note the dh_fixperms is at the end of this sequence, and Julian> must be: Debian packages should not ship with any special Julian> bits set (except for symlinks and directories). The slink version of debhelper puts "d