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Re: kernel 2.5.73+, fakeroot, debuild - a small problem



Le mer 25/06/2003 à 00:34, Marek Habersack a écrit :
> Hey list,
> 
>   Running debuild as normal user under the 2.5.73+ kernel results in fakeroot
> actually setting the file ownership to root (or any other uid/gid for that
> matter). The result is that the parts which don't run under fakeroot - 
> e.g. debian/rules won't be able to write to the debian/packagename/ subdirs sometimes. 
> It happens only when the filesystem on which the build is taking place is XFS. 
> This is due to the restrict_chown sysctl which was present in XFS before but never 
> actually implemented. Starting with 2.5.73 XFS does use the setting which works in
> the way that allows the owner of the directory to give away its
> subdirectories/files to other users. If restrict_chown is enabled then the
> old behavior is back, however it defaults to disabled.

This problem exists with kernel 2.4.21 + XFS 1.3.0pre2 too.

-- 
Cédric Delfosse
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