Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postinst failure
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-23
Tags: +patch
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-23) ...
Merging information from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ...
cp: preserving times for
`/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d/1.0.7+20011202-7.1': Operation not
permitted
cp: preserving times for `/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d/2.0.2-13':
Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for `/tmp/tmp.LUR0Hq/texmfXFQ9vvu.md5sum.d': Operation
not permitted
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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.
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