[lvm-devel] [PATCH 11/11] debian: drop concept of OWNER/GROUP and let install do it's job for permissions

[Bastian Blank]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:01:34AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:49:18PM +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> > remove owner and group definitions and install anything writable as mendated
> > by the debian policy
> --with-user= and --with-group= should already handle the owner and group
> (i.e. set them to blank like we do in RHEL/Fedora)

So noone uses that functionality. Why is it there and why is it used by
default? Every system where the defaults used by install (maybe *BSD)
have there own mechanism to solve this.

Bastian

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