Your message dated Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:49:52 +0000
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and subject line Bug#573701: fixed in base-files 5.2
has caused the Debian Bug report #573701,
regarding base-files: /usr/src permissions causes make-kpkg failure "control
directory has bad permissions 2755"
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Package: base-files
Version: 5.1
Severity: normal
To help investigate bug 571457, I wanted to compile an openvz upstream
kernel obtained by
cd /usr/src
git clone git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.26-openvz openvz-git-kernel
For the actual kernel compile, I configured and then tried the Debian way:
cd /usr/src/openvz-git-kernel
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
Expected result: A linux-image .deb package gets built.
Result seen: The build fails, with an error message
dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be >=0755
and <=0775)
My analysis: base-files sets up /usr/src with the g+s permission bit,
that bit infects my entire source directory tree, make-kpkg doesn't like
that.
My take on this: Various Debian packages should fit together, but
base-files and make-kpkg don't, in this respect.
My own suggestion towards how to achieve cooperation: Drop the g+s bit
from /usr/src.
My workaround does exactly that:
chroot -R g-s .
Final "pea-counting" remarks on the precise package version:
The build actually failed on a Lenny system with base-files version 5lenny5.
I verified that it is the base-files package that sets up the g+s
permission, via
rm -rf /usr/src
aptitude reinstall base-files
ls -l /usr
But I did this verification on a different system (in fact, an openvz
guest of the Lenny system host) which has "testing" installed.
I didn't bother to retry the entire kernel compilation on that "testing"
system. (I would be willing to do that if people think it's worth the
effort.)
Regards, and thank you for providing fine software,
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.22 Debian base system master
password
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-15 a pattern scanning and text
proces
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
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Source: base-files
Source-Version: 5.2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
base-files, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
base-files_5.2.dsc
to main/b/base-files/base-files_5.2.dsc
base-files_5.2.tar.gz
to main/b/base-files/base-files_5.2.tar.gz
base-files_5.2_powerpc.deb
to main/b/base-files/base-files_5.2_powerpc.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Santiago Vila <[email protected]> (supplier of updated base-files package)
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:22:04 +0200
Source: base-files
Binary: base-files
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 5.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Description:
base-files - Debian base system miscellaneous files
Closes: 571083 573701
Changes:
base-files (5.2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Added question in FAQ to document the fact that some configuration
files in /etc are never updated on upgrades. Closes: #571083.
* Changed default /usr/src to be root:root and 755. Closes: #573701.
The old permissions were of little benefit, and the user can still
change this after installing a new system anyway.
* Renamed FAQ to README and added a compatibility symlink.
* Removed obsolete Depends on base-passwd, as version 2.0.3.4 is more
than 10 years old and we don't support upgrades which skip releases.
* Dropped preinst completely, as it was there just to support upgrades
from very old releases (that we don't support anymore).
* Removed postinst code that supports upgrades from very old releases.
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