On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 01:15:51AM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Package: fakeroot > Version: 1.14.5-1 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-...@lists.debian.org > > I have observed a very strange failure when using fakeroot > with dpkg-buildpackage under kfreebsd-amd64. > > The issue at stake is that links are not assigned the ownership > of the superuser. Sometimes even group setting fails, but that is > irregular enough that I have problems reproducing also the > group-failure in a small package. > > I include in this bug report a minimal package "wrong-issue", > which consistently fails in setting ownership "root" on the > symlink "still-wrong-issue" when built on kfreebsd-amd64. > The command was > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B > > In contrast, with no surprise, the build succeeds with > > dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -B > > and there is no problem with fakeroot in GNU/Linux. > I have no good explanation at this moment, but I have > rebooted the kfreebsd-system and still the same failure > persists. >
The problems is triggered by the new version of tar that is present only in sid, squeeze is not affected. However given the packages are built in a sid chroot, we might be in trouble, especially given the package has been uploaded almost 50 days ago... -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
