From c769d0b681c400041d3cb1f9299e46f0840b1a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Armstrong <steven@icarus.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:05:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] preserve ownership and permissions of existing file

Signed-off-by: Steven Armstrong <steven@icarus.ethz.ch>
---
 cdist/conf/type/__postfix_master/gencode-remote | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__postfix_master/gencode-remote b/cdist/conf/type/__postfix_master/gencode-remote
index a4d6462b..51edc668 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__postfix_master/gencode-remote
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__postfix_master/gencode-remote
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ remove_entry() {
    suffix="#/cdist:$__object_name"
    cat << DONE
 tmpfile=\$(mktemp ${config}.cdist.XXXXXXXXXX)
+# preserve ownership and permissions of existing file
+cp -p "$config" "\$tmpfile"
 awk -v prefix="$prefix" -v suffix="$suffix" '
 {
    if (index(\$0,prefix)) {