Christian Seiler wrote:
This is really weird, especially since /etc/os-release is owned by
base-files, so it should only be created when the package is installed,
Yes, it is weird, but debootstrap has to put everything together, so
if it has to put the symlink in place before unpacking base-files, that
would be allowed (as far as everything else works, that is).
and it also shouldn't be a symbolic link but rather a regular file.
No. In jessie, it's a symlink. This is explained in the changelog for
base-files 7.4.
Diddier Hilarion wrote:
//Unpacking base-files (8+deb8u4) ...//
//dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_8+deb8u4_arm64.deb (--install)://
// symbolic link '/etc/os-release' size has changed from 50 to 21//
The right size is 21 indeed (it's the number of chars in the destination,
i.e. "../usr/lib/os-release") so I wonder where the 50 comes from.