Re: [TWiki-Dev] Re: TWiki Debian Package State

[Grant B. <gra...@gr...>]

* Nicholas Lee <nj...@pl...> [021105 11:19]:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:36:20AM -0500, ei...@th... wrote:
> > The problem is that I want to ship files in the package with the
> > correct permissions and owners, and that means needing the user on the
> > system at package *build* time.    It does the right thing at install
> > time; I could be evil and have the package build-depend on itself,
> 
> Either cupsys or samba had a issue like this at one point. build,
> install and build again to get full function.
> 
> > which would be sort of wrong, but strictly speaking it would solve the
> > problem.  [Or maybe I've just missed something in the way I put things
> > together and there's a cleaner approach that avoids the issue...]
> 
> chown in postinst? 

This sounds like it would work.

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-- Grant Bowman                                <gra...@gr...>