Re: Debootstrap
On 2011-02-16 23:07 +0100, Joey Hess wrote:
> Peter Smith wrote:
>> Last four lines of debootstrap.log:
>>
>> -----
>> Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
>> dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:823: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed.
>> Aborted
>
> dpkg does a sanity check, expecting the length of a symlink as reported
> by lstat(2) to be the same as the length returned by readlink(2).
> The only way that could normally happen would be if the symlink were
> changed in between the two system calls. But that should not be
> happening here.
>
> This seems to point to a bug in fakeroot or fakechroot. Probably
> fakechroot. Possibly the interaction of the two. I'd file a bug on
> fakechroot.
Seems to be #561991¹ which is fixed in wheezy/sid, but not in squeeze.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561991
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