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Bug#996540: marked as done (Post install fails when run as non-root user and does not respect PKG_ROOT)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #996540,
regarding Post install fails when run as non-root user and does not respect  PKG_ROOT
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Package: install-info
Version: 6.7.0.dfsg.2-6

The post install is failing when dpkg is configured with a root and run
as an unprivileged user. This is an issue partly with packaging and
partly with the upstream package (I think). The upstream issue can be remedied with a patch in
the packaging.

My suggestion for a fix is to modify update-info-dir such that it takes
an argument (eg. --root <path>) prepend that argument to all file paths
used.  Then in the post install call update-info-dir with $PKG_ROOT as
the argument, eg. update-info-dir --root $PKG_ROOT. Any fix will do
though.

Glenn

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Am 15.01.2022 um 07:54 teilte Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues mit:

Quoting Hilmar Preuße (2022-01-14 23:57:32)


Hi Josch,


Further I don't understand the use case: under which situations will a
configuration script will be run as non-privileged user?


None. Glenn also filed #996435, #996438 and #996542 and my answer to the latter
also holds for this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996542#25
I'm closing the bug using the same justification. Hope this was correct.


Hilmar
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