Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) wrote:
> 1. The owner and group attributes for the file and directory actions 
> will be made optional. By policy, they will be required for opensolaris 
> packages, but the code will not enforce this. If the owner and group 
> attributes are not present, then the ownership of the file when 
> installed will become whatever the operating system default is for a 
> file created in that directory. For a verify, if the owner and group 
> attributes are not present, then those attributes of the file will not 
> be checked.

Please ensure that for a directory that already exists, the settings 
will remain unchanged (and not revert to the OS default).  I suppose 
that the same might apply for a file, but having two packages deliver 
one file is less common (and may not even be legal in IPS, I don't know).

One of my pet peeves in Solaris packaging is that practically every 
package in the world has to agree on the ownership and modes of /usr, 
making it hard to make system-wide changes and easy to have mismatched 
packages yank the directory settings around.
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