Re: glibc 2.0.94 for testing
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:11:40PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> >Everything involving unpacking a .deb.
>
> Well, that overstating it a bit I think. What breaks is that dpkg-deb[1]
> runs chown(2) on everything it extracts from the archive, including
> symlinks. In recent 2.1 kernels, there is an lchown(2) call, and chown(2)
> follows symlinks (unlike 2.0 kernels where chown(2) will chown the symlink).
> If the symlink dpkg-deb tries to chown is broken, it exits, as chown(2)
> returned ENOENT.
That's not the only issue. A random fflush() that probably shouldn't
even be there causes dpkg to horribly die on debs on ext2 filesystems
using recent dev kernels. Don't ask.
Dan
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