Re: glibc 2.0.94 for testing
>> >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.
Haven't noticed that one (at least not on the alpha under 2.1.106), but
I probably don't want to know...
Regards,
/Anders
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