On Thursday 15 March 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > A workaround would be to not own this folder which is very ugly, > violates guidelines, leaves orphaned folders behind, and is just not > The Right Solution. Which is The Right Solution? Well, if I understand correctly, considering that fiddling with the permissions of this dir is required for the purpose of enabling mediawiki to create files in it, and those created files will not be owned by the mediawiki package in any case and will be left behind on package erase (ditto the dir if there are files in it, dir owned or not), I don't think leaving it unowned would be anywhere near a cardinal sin either. In fact, it sounds much better to me than changing permissions of packaged files - package upgrades reset permissions of files, %config or not. Ditto rpm --setperms/--setugids. Which is why IMHO the answer to the original question is "don't even try to require changing permissions/ownership of packaged files, find a better way around the problem". Marking the dir as %ghost and experimenting how it behaves then could also be of (mostly academic) interest. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
