Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a DD to be, waiting for the DAM to open my accounts. I want to >adopt an orphaned package called crafty, a chess game player. i rebuild >a new package since there's a new upstream code. > >The package installs opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Since the >program also "learns" how to play, it regularly updates these opening >books. Although I explicitely specified in debian/rules to change the >permissions on those files to rw-rw-rw, my files in >debian/tmp/var/lib/crafty are still rw-r--r--.
Mode 666? Are you really sure? I can't see any justification for that. Perhaps use 664 instead and make the program setgid. dh_fixperms is removing the extra write permissions - see its man page. You either need to exclude some files or change their permissions after calling dh_fixperms. >I also noted all the files belong to me. Is it correct ? Yes, because you can't chown() anything unless you're the superuser. >If I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as root, files belong to root, >which looks saner, but it doesn't ask for any GPG key. Install the devscripts package and use 'debuild' instead, which has the added bonus that it automatically does a lintian check for you. A few other nits about the posted debian/rules: > rm -rf debian/tmp debian/files* core debian/substvars dh_clean will clean up all of these for you. > dh_installdirs [...] > cd debian/tmp && install -d `cat ../dirs` dh_installdirs should already have done this. > install -s crafty debian/tmp/usr/games/crafty.bin A DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip facility (see policy 4.1) would be nice here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
