Your message dated Thu, 1 May 2014 10:32:40 +0200 with message-id <201405011032.47606.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#746496: general: Package upgrade scripts partly fail when /tmp is noexec has caused the Debian Bug report #746496, regarding general: Package upgrade scripts partly fail when /tmp is noexec to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When /tmp is configured as noexec (for example /tmp in RAM), some scripts fail on package update. For example, updating kernel package try to execute scripts in /tmp and in /etc/kernel/xxx The first fail (in /tmp), while the other is successful (under /etc/kernel). This doesn't fail the upgrade globally, just these scripts (for which execution is prevented by the system) fail. This doesn't seem to long-term affect the system, but it's not easy for a user to understand which are the consequences of the scripts failure. Maybe no package install or upgrade should try to exec scripts under /tmp. Thanks for considering this suggestion. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, On Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Pierre wrote: > > When /tmp is configured as noexec (for example /tmp in RAM), some scripts > > fail on package update. > > Don't Do It. > > It will break the system in surprising ways. > > It may look like it is working, but we don't properly support it, as it is > almost never tested. Neither by us, nor by anybody else (so third-party > software is very likely to also choke on noexec /tmp and/or noexec > $TMPDIR). I agree, thus closing. (As unsupported + unrecommned: surely you can do it, but if you do it, you're on your own.) cheers, Holgersignature.asc
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