* sean finney | On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:39:12PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: | > dpkg-statoverride is a tool for the system administrator to specify a | > different mode or ownership for a file to that which is provided in the | > package. It is not meant to be used by the package. | | there are cases where it's appropriate for a package to use it. for | example, if the package creates the user that is supposed to own a file, | and later changes the ownership to that user in the maintscripts.
If so, create the user in preinst and it'll work just fine. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]