peter karlsson wrote: > A program I packaged (jwhois, I am taking over maintainership of it > officially with its new version as well) uses suidmanager, but since it > creates a group on installation, it cannot have the setgid bit in the > package; can I still do my chmod'ing in postinst, and just remove the > calls I have to suidmanager.
Hmm. If you run chrmod in the postinst, you will clobber any different permissions that the user has set with statoverride. I think it may work to examine dpkg-statoverride --list file, and if a statoverride is set, do nothing, else do the chmod/chgrp. -- see shy jo
