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Re: unable to unpack some package



Hi,

>Michael Schmitz <SCHMITZ@LCBVAX.CCHEM.BERKELEY.EDU> writes:
>
>> Just use 2.0.x for the time being (or try to figure out how to
>> change the postinst scripts to do the Right Thing).
>
>a) it has nothing to do with postinst's but is about the internal
>workings of dpkg, b) dpkg is doing the Right Thing, it's the kernel
>which changed a syscall in a needlessly incompatible manner. 

I was guessing again :-) are you sure the syscall is going to be fixed
in a future release, or will we have to resolve the link and chown() the 
result (still assuming this actually is the syscall in question)?

	Michael


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