On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-2] Micha³Politowski wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:19:10 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > [...] > > From my investigations, I thought that the intended use of dpkg-statoverride > > was by the local administrator, modifying the default suid/sgid and > > ownership of the file as set in the package tarball. > > This is also my understanding. Still, some packages do use it for better or > worse reasons. > One example I've just found in uml-utilities.postinst: > > if ! getent group uml-net >/dev/null; then > addgroup --quiet --system uml-net > fi > > if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/lib/uml/uml_net >/dev/null; then > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root uml-net 04750 \ > /usr/lib/uml/uml_net > fi
There are plans to remove this nescessity, by having the preinst add the user/group, and having the deb contain the dynamic permissions itself. This would mean all packages that current Depend on adduser would have to Pre-Depend on it. It also requires some changes to dpkg-deb.
