Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Browning
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if the default has to be changed should dpkg-statoverride be used, which can be either because the local admin wants something different, or because a debconf or postinst script asked the

dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Browning
Are there any other docs than the manpage. I think I may have misinterpreted them (some elaboration there would be helpful). What's the proper usage of dpkg-statoverride? lintian told me that I should kill off emacs20's usage of suidregister in favor of dpkg-statoverride, so I presumed that

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Rob Browning wrote: I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The reason you always had to call suidregister was that that was also the

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-May-01, 09:37 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Rob Browning wrote: I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Greenland wrote: Okay, now *I'm* confused. If dpkg is getting the default permissions from the package itself, doesn't that imply that Rob needs to ship the file properly sgid mail? He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if the default has to be changed