Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: normal By default all files in /etc are considered as config files and to be kept on package upgrade (or ask to user what to do with new config file).
This works excelent for regular files, but can fail if there are two or more hardlinks to the same file, e. g. if /etc/init.d/script and /etc/rc2.d/S02script are the same file (latter *is not* a symlink). I can just guess the reason: dpkg *moves* old conffile and then tries to create hardlink to file that is not exists any more. Synopsis: root@myhost:~/tmp/bug# dpkg -c ../hardlink-bug_40-0-0_all.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./etc/rc2.d/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 29 2011-08-16 13:10 ./etc/rc2.d/file1 hrw-r--r-- root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./etc/rc2.d/file2 link to ../etc/rc2.d/file1 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./usr/share/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-08-16 13:10 ./usr/share/doc/hardlink-bug/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2011-08-16 00:53 ./usr/share/doc/hardlink- bug/copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 153 2011-08-16 00:57 ./usr/share/doc/hardlink- bug/changelog.Debian.gz root@myhost:~/tmp/bug# dpkg -i ../hardlink-bug_40-0-0_all.deb Processing in zone: global (Reading database ... 108804 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace hardlink-bug 40-0-0 (using ../hardlink-bug_40-0-0_all.deb) .... Unpacking replacement hardlink-bug ... dpkg: error processing ../hardlink-bug_40-0-0_all.deb (--install): error creating hard link `./etc/rc2.d/file2': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: ../hardlink-bug_40-0-0_all.deb -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.15.5 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information
hardlink-bug.tar.gz
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