Tushar Teredesai wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Angel Tsankov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are you saying that users belonging to group G cannot change a file >> whose group is G? >> > > Unless you explicitly modify the file permissions after each > installation or set the appropriate umask, there are no group write > permissions for the installed files. > You will not have to modify the permission right after installing some of a package, but rather -- before any subsequent installation of a different version of the same package.
> The hint in fact relies on one pkg-user not being able to modify the > files created by another pkg-user to identify collisions. > I find the idea more like an extension to 'package users' and it does not circumvent 'package users' -- collisions are still possible but only between *unrelated* packages. And I find different versions of the same program somewhat related. --Angel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
