On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote:

> Doesn't appear to be good enough on its own...
> 
> dpkg: error processing ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb (--install):
>  error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.gz': No such 
> file or directory
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> ii  libc6           2.0.7pre1-1    The GNU C library version 2 (run-time 
> files)
> 
> > The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package.  Is
> > this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+
> > kernels?
> > 
> > -- 

2.1.86 swapped syscalls lchown and chown.  So 2.1.86 is backward compatible.
Please upgrade to 2.1.86 and all will work again.

I just checked this on my system with a few packages that hadn't been able to
install.  They went fine.

Adam



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