Debian Bug report logs - #14549
dpkg: dpkg should keep old permissions when upgrading packages

version graph

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Wakko Warner <wakko@ani.ml.org>

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:33:00 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.4.0.19

Done: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Toggle useless messages

View this report as an mbox folder, status mbox, maintainer mbox

Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#14549; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Wakko Warner <wakko@ani.ml.org>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wakko Warner <wakko@ani.ml.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg: dpkg should keep old permissions when upgrading packages
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:39:24 -0500 (EST)
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

When installing new packages, dpkg uses the permissions in that package.  dpkg
should keep the permissions of the files that are on the system.  This way,
the administrator doesn't have to change all the files back to what they were.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux ani 2.0.31 #2 Thu Sep 18 01:07:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.5c-0.1
libg++272	Version: 2.7.2.5-3
ncurses3.4	Version: 1.9.9g-5

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#14549; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 14549@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@ani.ml.org>
Cc: 14549@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#14549: dpkg: dpkg should keep old permissions when upgrading packages
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:30:22 +0100 (MET)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Wakko Warner wrote:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.19
> 
> When installing new packages, dpkg uses the permissions in that package.  dpkg
> should keep the permissions of the files that are on the system.  This way,
> the administrator doesn't have to change all the files back to what they were.

I do not agree.

If your permissions are really messed up, installing packages again
should solve the problem.

Have you tried suidmanager? It may do what you want.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.3i
Charset: latin1

iQCVAgUBNGBKoCqK7IlOjMLFAQHthQP8D4G2wD9zABomKv2TRSD7R438P2ua4l1w
nJu8Lq5x0aUiu3o4lRJu4FFzJL5L0lVp32BRDtKy5Xk+74hdBVj/I2sF26DIIQm1
YVTlSZsMa1/ljSSwPcaqPYodNDWYqd2qioTmypCk4kWEO8OzKxfYCSrBi9ac1CFX
OveqrJC4bUw=
=pSGj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! Request was from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.

Debian bug tracking system administrator <owner@bugs.debian.org>. Last modified: Fri Apr 26 13:11:12 2024; Machine Name: bembo

Debian Bug tracking system

Debbugs is free software and licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2. The current version can be obtained from https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/.

Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson, 2005-2017 Don Armstrong, and many other contributors.