Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postinst failure
tags 284469 -patch
merge 257075 284469
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Chad Miller <Chad.Miller@veritas.com> wrote:
> In /usr/sbin/update-texmf , line 88,
>
> cp -a ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
>
> may be made into
>
> cp -dr --preserve=mode,ownership ${MD5SUMS} ${TMPTXMF}.md5sum.d
>
> ...leaving out "archive", which may cause "cp" to fail.
This is not a bug in tetex-bin. Every decent filesystem should be able
to set timestamps. This is a bug in the kernel - most probably you have
installed from somebody's (Eduard Bloch's?) inofficial install images
with xfs support, and these images used a kernel version with buggy ACL
implementation in XFS.
By the way, you could have easily found that out yourself, by going to
the tetex-bin bugs page,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=tetex-bin&archive=no
and looking through the bugs - or just search for the string "cp".
As I said, this is not a bug in tetex, but it's also not a bug in any
kernel image released by Debian. Therefore we are not able to assign
this to an other package.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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