Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-100
The package 'aptitude' provide cron script /etc/cron.daily/aptitude
which uses cmp(). The executable cmp() is provided by package
'diff'. The dependency of 'aptitude' on 'diff' is not listed in the
Debian control file for 'aptitude'.
$ more /etc/cron.daily/standard | grep 'cmp'
cmp -s passwd.bak /etc/passwd || (cp -p /etc/passwd passwd.bak &&
cmp -s group.bak /etc/group || (cp -p /etc/group group.bak &&
cmp -s shadow.bak /etc/shadow || (cp -p /etc/shadow shadow.bak &&
cmp -s gshadow.bak /etc/gshadow || (cp -p /etc/gshadow
gshadow.bak &&
if ! cmp -s dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status ; then
$ dpkg -S /etc/cron.daily/standard
cron: /etc/cron.daily/standard
$ apt-cache depends cron
cron
Depends: libc6
Depends: libpam0g
Depends: libselinux1
Depends: debianutils
Depends: adduser
Depends: lsb-base
Suggests: anacron
Suggests: logrotate
Suggests: lockfile-progs
Suggests: checksecurity
|Recommends: exim4
|Recommends: postfix
Recommends: <mail-transport-agent>
courier-mta
esmtp-run
exim
masqmail
msmtp-mta
nullmailer
postfix
sendmail-bin
smail
ssmtp
xmail
exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4-daemon-light
Conflicts: <suidmanager>
Conflicts: lockfile-progs
I suggest including package 'diff' among the packages upon which
'cron' depends or removing the use of executable cmp() in
/etc/cron.daily/standard.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 4.1.1-21, kernel
linux-image-2.6.18-5-686, and libc6 version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2.
- Amos Statter
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