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has caused the Debian Bug report #1126417,
regarding coreutils-from-uutils: mv and cp do not support -Z
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Package: coreutils-from-uutils
Version: 0.0.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
updating my unstable (arm64) system appears to have pulled in
coreutils-from-uutils
and the Rust coreutils package:
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$ dpkg -l | grep coreutils
ii coreutils 9.7-999+0.0.0 all coreutils meta package
ii coreutils-from-uutils 0.0.0 all coreutils from the uutils
project
ii rust-coreutils 0.0.30-4 arm64 Universal coreutils utils,
written in Rust
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Great! But other packages are not aware of this yet and along the way other
packages wanted to install their updates as well, triggering the re-generation
of the
kernel's initrd, and broke with:
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.3+deb14-arm64
error: unexpected argument '-Z' found
tip: to pass '-Z' as a value, use '-- -Z'
Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
For more information, try '--help'.
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/kmod failed with return 1.
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Or the "apparmor" package:
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Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/apparmor ...
error: unexpected argument '-Z' found
tip: to pass '-Z' as a value, use '-- -Z'
Usage: mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
For more information, try '--help'.
dpkg: error processing package apparmor (--configure):
old apparmor package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit
status 1
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The quick fix was to remove the "-Z" option from the install scripts, e.g.
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$ diff -u /var/lib/dpkg/info/apparmor.postinst{.bak,}
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/apparmor.postinst.bak 2026-01-13 14:07:38.000000000
+0000
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/apparmor.postinst 2026-01-25 15:15:02.413000917
+0000
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
EOM
fi
mkdir -p /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d 2>/dev/null || true
- mv -Z -f "$tmp" /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu
+ mv -f "$tmp" /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu
chmod 644 /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu
if [ ! -e /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d/site.local ]; then
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
EOM
mkdir -p /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d 2>/dev/null ||
true
- mv -Z -n "$tmp" /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d/site.local
+ mv -n "$tmp" /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d/site.local
chmod 644 /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d/site.local
fi
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...and similarly in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/kmod for the "kmod"
package.
Upstream should have -Z implemented already:
> cp: implement -Z
> https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/7565
See also:
> Supporting SELinux in the coreutils
> https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/wiki/Supporting-SELinux-in-the-coreutils
Please support the SELinux options in Rust Coreutils.
Thank you,
Christian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (1000, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 6.18.3+deb14-arm64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils-from-uutils depends on:
ii rust-coreutils 0.0.30-4
coreutils-from-uutils recommends no packages.
coreutils-from-uutils suggests no packages.
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Version: 0.6.0-1
The newer version now in the archive fixed this for me.
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