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Re: Build problem with Courier (#327162), need help



On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:52:45PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote:
> 
> >I'm not able to build Courier packages for unstable which are intended
> >to fix security problems due to a curious FTBFS bug (#327162):
> >
> >find /tmp/courier-0.47/debian/tmp -perm +u+x -type f | xargs chmod 
> >u+rwx,go+rx
> >chmod: too few arguments
> >Try `chmod --help' for more information.
> >make: *** [install] Error 123
> >
> >There _are_ files with this permission and building the package within 
> >sarge
> >works and issuing the above command from outside of the sid chroot works as
> >well.
> 
> The reason is that findutils 4.2.2{4,5}-1 behave differently. (I don't 
> know why exactly). If you change the -perm argument to
> -perm -u+x
> it works.

That means something different.  There's still an example using +g+w on
the find man page; if it's broken, isn't it a bug in find?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC



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