Re: sparc: binary cd 1 created with 0 bytes
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:20:34AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > something is going wrong with the boot stuff.
> >
> > any idea why debian-cd ignores this error and continues
> > with the rest ?
>
> Because it doesn't check return codes, and it should. I'll submit a quick
> patch for it today, since the problem occurs because right now, sparc
> needs root to a) untar root.tar.gz (it contains some dev nodes and such)
> and b) to then create CD 1 (since the de nodes are masked to 077 to make
> it not create a temporary security problem on the system it is building
> on).
Hmm. If only devices are the problem, fakeroot(1) should do the trick.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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