Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.25
Followup-For: Bug #182626
As noted, dpkg-deb will currently fail if the control
directory is setgid. (The error message is also incorrect.)
Abset some reason for this behavior, the following patch
fixes it.
--- build.c.dist 2009-02-02 06:46:10.000000000 -0800
+++ build.c 2009-03-18 23:36:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -271,9 +271,10 @@
strcat(controlfile, "/" BUILDCONTROLDIR "/");
if (lstat(controlfile,&mscriptstab)) ohshite("unable to stat control
directory");
if (!S_ISDIR(mscriptstab.st_mode)) ohshit("control directory is not a
directory");
- if ((mscriptstab.st_mode & 07757) != 0755)
- ohshit(_("control directory has bad permissions %03lo (must be >=0755 "
- "and <=0775)"), (unsigned long)(mscriptstab.st_mode & 07777));
+ if ((mscriptstab.st_mode & 05757) != 0755)
+ ohshit(_("control directory has bad permissions %03lo (must be 0755, "
+ "0775, 02755, or 02775)"),
+ (unsigned long)(mscriptstab.st_mode & 07777));
for (mscriptp= maintainerscripts; *mscriptp; mscriptp++) {
strcpy(controlfile, directory);
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
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