On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:01:53AM -0700, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> I also point out that if a chown/chmod operation by root on an existent
> directory fails, there's nothing to be done about it, whether you notice
> it or not.
My response would be inclined to be "run fsck". Programs should report
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:48:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Stephen Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The postinst script does several chown and chmod operations on
> > subdirectories of /usr/local/share/. If these fail, the script
> > fails (it runs with sh -e) and the package install
> "Since /usr/local can be mounted read-only from a remote server, these
> directories must be created and removed by the postinst and prerm
> maintainer scripts and not be included in the .deb archive. These
> scripts must not fail if either of these operations fail." (9.1.2)
> since the
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:48:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Stephen Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > But failing to do a chown or chmod of these directories is not
> > important enough to cause package installation to fail on any file
> > system.
>
> Before I'd be willing to change this,
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Rob Browning wrote:
> Before I'd be willing to change this, I'd need to hear from
> debian-policy that such a change would be acceptable. Current policy
Debian requires a *POSIX* system to work. VFAT ain't POSIX, so no dice.
There is no need to get a policy stick for this, it
Stephen Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The postinst script does several chown and chmod operations on
> subdirectories of /usr/local/share/. If these fail, the script
> fails (it runs with sh -e) and the package installation fails. This
> is too severe, as the chown/chmod failure can be in
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