On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:56:59AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > If I understand dpkg-statoverride correctly, mentioning that
> > dpkg-statoverride is not to be called from maintainer post/pre
> > install scripts should also be added.
>
> I oppose that. How am I supposed to have dynamically-created UIDs [that are
> not created by default in a debian install, and therefore cannot be added to
> the .deb without creating that uid first] inside the .deb without royally
> screwing all autobuilders?
In that case, use chown and chmod (if necessary), and
dpkg-statoverride --list to determine whether an override is to be
used for your package/file.
But you mustn't use dpkg-statoverride to introduce new overrides;
that's the responsibility of the local sysadmin.
Julian
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