Re: group id of newly created nodes
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:32:13AM -0400, utsl@quic.net wrote:
> > So I thought I would just give you a heads up on this issue, because it
> > really puzzled me, and maybe you want to check if your builds are all fine.
> > Candidates are dpkg, base-files, and debianutils because their debian/rules
> > commands are not careful enough to explicitely set the group to root.
>
> Then that's a bug in the rules of those packages. It's sloppy, and needs
> to be fixed.
I agree. Luckily, I kept a list of such packages as I found them. There
might be more (actually, I would assume that there are more).
base-files_3.0.2
debianutils_1.16
dog_1.7-3.1
dpkg_1.9.20
ffingerd_1.28-4.1
freecdb_0.62
ftplib-dev_3.1-1-4
ftplib3_3.1-1-4
mpack_1.5-7
netenv_0.82-12
netris_0.5-4
passwd_20000902-12
scalemail_0.0.2001.08.19
tetradraw_2.0.2-4
xxkb_1.6-4
autopilot
fidogate
hextype
kimwitu++
larswm
linleech
libpng2
This is out of 1400 binary packages. Assuming the the other 1380 packages are
fine (which is a bold assumption already), you can extrapolate how much
packages can be expected to have this problem.
> Thanks for the heads-up. I believe the scripts should be fixed,
> regardless. They don't handle that behaviour, and they don't fail
> either. That's a bug, because this can happen even on Linux.
Interesting to know, thanks for this info.
> That mount option might be useful for finding this particular packaging
> problem. Someone could put an autobuilder on a filesystem like that, then
> run a script that scans packages for the group id the build was run
> under. Wouldn't be hard, dpkg -c foo.deb | grep sbuild might work.
Yes, that's how I found the above list. I took the Hurd autobuilder output,
listed the content, sed'ed out the group and owner and sort'ed/uniq'ed it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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