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FS#43690 - [postfix] Upgrade to 2.11.3-2 resulted in conflicting directory ownership issues

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrick Goetz (pgoetz) - Tuesday, 03 February 2015, 16:49 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Tuesday, 03 February 2015, 19:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When I updated to postfix-2.11.3-2, I got the following messages from Pacman:

warning: directory ownership differs on /var/lib/postfix/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/trace/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/saved/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/public/
filesystem: 73:75 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/
filesystem: 73:75 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/private/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/incoming/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/hold/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/flush/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/deferred/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/defer/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/corrupt/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/bounce/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/spool/postfix/active/
filesystem: 73:0 package: 0:0

I did not change the ownership of these files from the previous package install and am pretty sure that they need to be owned by the postifix user (original permissions) rather than root (what the updated package wants).
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Tuesday, 03 February 2015, 19:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#43646 
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 03 February 2015, 17:40 GMT
/var/lib/postfix is chowned in the install script, so that's a false positive. Leaving this open because I don't know about the /var/spool/postfix dirs.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 03 February 2015, 17:59 GMT
This is not a package bug per se but a new pacman feature. See Allan's mail "user/group management in packages" on arch-dev-public.

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