Suggestion: quilt

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Apr 6 15:10:50 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 06:15 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:30 -0400, Toshio wrote:
> > > 
> > > I still don't see what the problem is with having it
> > > own /etc/bash_completion.d/quilt instead of the whole directory.
> > > Someone care to enlighten me again?
> > > 
> > If bash_completion isn't installed on the system, quilt will
> > create /etc/bash_completion.d.  When quilt is erased, it will leave the
> > empty bash_completion.d directory in /etc with nothing owning it.

Additionally, unowned dirs will be created using default permissions,
and are affected by umask.  With restrictive umask in place that will
lead to inaccessible dirs and b0rkage.




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