Re: chown -h trouble??
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 Kristoffer.Rose@ens-lyon.fr wrote:
> `chown -h' is only supported when the kernel supports it. You must
> get a new kernel that supports it, say, 2.0.35 from someone with the same
> machine you have.
>
> If you installed a dpkg from unstable then dpkg is broken until you have
> done this. (Well, the story is longer than that but you probably don't
> want it ...). This is a known problem that is being dealt with and will be
> fixed before "unstable" becomes "stable", of course. The way to repair it
> has been posted several times to this list so take a peek in the archives
> if you want it.
FYI, if you've really HOSED your system and need a working non-lchown()
dpkg, I have a tarball of 1.4.0.31 compiled without lchown() support on my
ftp site:
beezer.med.miami.edu:/pub/chris/dpkg-chown
Just su to root, cd /, then untar it. It'll overwrite the current dpkg,
BUT please don't do this unless you just need to finish installing stuff
to compile your own kernel with lchown() support...
Believe me, it's worth it and necessary.
C
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