Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Ben Finney wrote: Richard Hector writes: We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the files it needs to. ... * You're root-squashing

deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the files it needs to. We can probably avoid it by having the postinst su to the user that will own

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz writes: We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the files it needs to. You'll likely get better information

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:50 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz writes: We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz writes: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:50 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz writes: The packages in question are web sites; we find that's the easiest way to deploy them. You might simply be using Debian's packaging system