Re: the base system (was Re: Current boot-floppies woes)
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:35:02AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au> writes:
>
> > 2. adduser doesn't like the removal of perl as it's still complaining
> > about "Can't locate auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix in @INC". There may also
> > be another perl related problem with pppconfig which needs
> > investigation
>
> Please file a Release Critical bug about this. I believe this is a
> perl-5.005-base problem.
>
> In fact, we hit this before but everyone was too lazy to file a bug,
> so of course, it never got fixed.
>
> So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE file a bug, file it ASAP, and file it
> with complete details on the problem. Let us know the bug# when you
> get it.
OK, will do.
> > 3. the permissions on most of the /dev files are wrong. Instead of
> > being 'crw-rw-rw-' they end up as 'crw-r--r--'. This example was
> > for /dev/pt*
>
> Are you talking about the rescue disk or the base system?
>
> > 4. the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp are incorrect. Instead of being
> > 'drwxrwxrwt' they end up as 'drwxr-xr-x'. Also, /tmp has root.sys
> > instead of root.root
>
> Are you talking about the rescue disk or the base system?
I'm talking about the base system on both counts. Makes for some weird
errors when trying to run programs as non-root. For the record, these
problems don't happen when building with 2.2.1 source.
Regards
Greg
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