Re: chown()/lchown() war ...
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 02:08 -0700 1998-07-20, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >is dpkg --root=newroot --force-depends -i packages.deb correct ?
>
> cd $newroot && dpkg ... (dpkg uses chroot, but it doesn't chdir to where
> the new root is first)
And on top of that does not strip down the path of the admin scripts.
So that won't do the trick.
> The dependence on ldso is only for 'ldconfig' on powerpc (the latest ld.so
> source package will build just 'ldconfig' on powerpc and alpha). If you
> have a ldconfig binary already (these are usually statically linked), it is
> safe to ignore the libc6 pre-depends on ldso.
>
> I intend to build a new glibc with some code to handle lchown/chown on
> kernels with the new behavior and the old behavior (there is code in glibc
> to handle this for i386, but not powerpc, the code for i386 is actually
> architecture independent, all that is necessary is to copy it over to the
> powerpc sysdeps dir and edit syscalls.list). When I do that, I will build
> and upload ldso as well.
Wow - I didn't know it was possible. I also didn't know it was a
problem but that's probably because both the libc and I originate in
2.1.10x kernels.
Dan
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