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Bug#746496: marked as done (general: Package upgrade scripts partly fail when /tmp is noexec)

Your message dated Thu, 1 May 2014 10:32:40 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#746496: general: Package upgrade scripts partly fail when /tmp is noexec
has caused the Debian Bug report #746496,
regarding general: Package upgrade scripts partly fail when /tmp is noexec
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Package: general
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When /tmp is configured as noexec (for example /tmp in RAM), some scripts
fail on package update.
For example, updating kernel package try to execute scripts in /tmp and in
/etc/kernel/xxx
The first fail (in /tmp), while the other is successful (under /etc/kernel).

This doesn't fail the upgrade globally, just these scripts (for which
execution is prevented by the system) fail.

This doesn't seem to long-term affect the system, but it's not easy for a user
to understand which are the consequences of the scripts failure.

Maybe no package install or upgrade should try to exec scripts under /tmp.

Thanks for considering this suggestion.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Hi,

On Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Pierre wrote:
> > When /tmp is configured as noexec (for example /tmp in RAM), some scripts
> > fail on package update.
> 
> Don't Do It.
> 
> It will break the system in surprising ways.
> 
> It may look like it is working, but we don't properly support it, as it is
> almost never tested.  Neither by us, nor by anybody else (so third-party
> software is very likely to also choke on noexec /tmp and/or noexec
> $TMPDIR).

I agree, thus closing. (As unsupported + unrecommned: surely you can do it, 
but if you do it, you're on your own.)


cheers,
	Holger

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