On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:27:05 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > > > What removes it? I suspect it's not dpkg... (or we would have noticed it > > > already) > > Hm, only started dpkg. So I suspected it. > > Did your machine crash/lose power during an upgrade? > > > work. The only thing I did in between was to reboot. Maybe it is/was a > > filesystem bug... which would be cruel. I will mark this bug as > > unreproducible > > for now. > > Maybe the bug is a missing fsync() in dpkg in some cases... but currently > it looks like a filesystem problem yes.
dpkg does not directly extract the control files, it uses dpkg-deb and that ones uses tar to extract those files. So either filesystem or tar related, but very improvable to be dpkg itself. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
