Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postin st failure
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Küster [mailto:frank@debian.org]
> Sent: Monday, 06 December, 2004 12:31
> To: Chad Miller
>
> 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.
Indeed, I am not using a Debian kernel. I am stuck within a "virtual
server" on a huge physical server, over which I've added Debian's userspace.
So your position is that having a filesystem in which I can set timestamps
should be a prerequisite for installing (not "using", note) tetex?
- chad
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