Debian Bug report logs - #4901
dpkg and file perms

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Message #3 received at quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

To: Debian developers list <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>

Subject: Re: dpkg and file perms

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 96 18:25 BST

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0

dpkg deliberately doesn't set permissions on existing directories.
This should be documented, but isn't (I'll BCC this to the bug system
to remind myself to fix it).

Andy Guy wrote:
[...]
> So I checked them out by hand.  A simple fix would change this (line
> 75 in dpkg-deb/info.c change "mx" to "pmx").

You have fundamentally misunderstood the way dpkg installs things.
Please do not attempt to modify the source until you understand it
better.  Thanks.

>   However this would also
> allow a bad package to change the perms on "/" forinstance - not so
> good.  Not sure what to do but we should do something - otherwise
> there is no easy way to fix problems like this.

Fix it in the postinst of the package which had an earlier broken
version.

Ian.

Message #8 received at 4901-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 4901-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:23:46 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

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