On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:11:40PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote: > >Everything involving unpacking a .deb. > > Well, that overstating it a bit I think. What breaks is that dpkg-deb[1] > runs chown(2) on everything it extracts from the archive, including > symlinks. In recent 2.1 kernels, there is an lchown(2) call, and chown(2) > follows symlinks (unlike 2.0 kernels where chown(2) will chown the symlink). > If the symlink dpkg-deb tries to chown is broken, it exits, as chown(2) > returned ENOENT.
That's not the only issue. A random fflush() that probably shouldn't even be there causes dpkg to horribly die on debs on ext2 filesystems using recent dev kernels. Don't ask. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]