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and subject line Re: Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks
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Package: approx
Version: 4.2-1
Severity: normal
I|m mirroring a Repository, which contains a symlink
/var/cache/approx/univention/univention-repository linking to ".".
/usr/sbin/approx-gc does follow this links and recurses until the path
gets too long:
/var/cache/approx/univention/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/univention-repository/2.3/maintained/sec3/amd64/linux-libc-dev_2.6.30-3.30.201004121554_amd64.deb
approx-gc probably shouldn't follow sym-links as all.
BYtE
Philipp
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages approx depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii curl 7.20.1-2 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.10.2-8 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpcre3 8.02-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-4 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
ii update-inetd 4.36 inetd configuration file updater
approx recommends no packages.
Versions of packages approx suggests:
pn libconfig-model-approx-perl <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/approx/approx.conf changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:42:09AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Please, pardon my defficiencies of reading non-mainstream computer
> languages, but, if I understood the code correctly, you completely
> removed the possibility of using symlinks for the approx cache.
>
> This broke approx 4.3 for users that maintain /var/cache/approx as a
> symlink to another filesystem:
> [...]
> Of course, detecting if a symlink creates a directed cycle in the
> filesystem is a PITA, but the case above is an easy one.
>
> OTOH, rejecting any possibility of symlinks seems wrong in principle.
I forgot to include this in the changelog of the latest version
(4.4-1), but this should be fixed now. I added full cycle detection when
doing a filesystem tree-walk, so arbitrary symlinks should be OK.
Cheers,
Eric
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