Hi, I've looked into your case, pbuilder doesn't delete any file.
dpkg is installing a pbuilder file; the symbollic link /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc isn't a conffile and is reinstalled on every package install, therefore you have introduced a symlink loop. It's not entirely obvious how to fix this. /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc was created just for convenience purpose and not for editing. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174155 Maybe that was the original problem, we should remove the /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc symlik in order to remove the false impression that you can do this. At Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:28:03 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Package: pbuilder > Version: 0.212 > Severity: grave > Justification: may cause data loss > > Dear pbuilder Maintainers, > > pbuilder fails to configure on wheezy (and sid) if /etc/pbuilderrc is a > symlink to /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc after it replaces > /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc with a symlink despite pbuilder/rewrite is set > to false. > > * What led up to the situation? > > I have my pbuilder in a git repository. Hence the complete > /etc/pbuilder/ is under version control while /etc/pbuilderrc is not, > but a symlink to /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc (to have it under version > control). > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > I upgraded today pbuilder from 0.211 to 0.212. It asked me via debconf > if it should update pbuilderrc and I denied that question. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > Setting up pbuilder (0.212) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/pbuilder.config: 40: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pbuilder.config: > cannot create /etc/pbuilderrc: Too many levels of symbolic links > dpkg: error processing pbuilder (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Processing triggers for menu ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > pbuilder > > And, even worse: My real pbuilderrc has been deleted despite > pbuilder/rewrite being set to false: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 21:53 /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc -> > ../pbuilderrc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 16 13:33 /etc/pbuilderrc -> pbuilder/pbuilderrc > > If I wouldn't have /etc/pbuilder/ in git but choosen that layout for > other reasons (and would have no other means of backup), my handcrafted > pbuilderrc would have been lost. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > That it just doesn't touch my handcrafted pbuilderrc independent of its > location and that it still would have looked like before: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 858 Sep 30 14:20 /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 16 13:33 /etc/pbuilderrc -> pbuilder/pbuilderrc > > (A "git checkout pbuilderrc" and then a "dpkg --configure --pending" > solved the issue for me. Nevertheless this shouldn't happen.) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages pbuilder depends on: > ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.175 > ii cdebootstrap 0.5.9 > ii coreutils 8.13-3.2 > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46 > ii debianutils 4.3.2 > ii debootstrap 1.0.42 > ii dpkg-dev 1.16.8 > ii wget 1.13.4-3 > > Versions of packages pbuilder recommends: > ii devscripts 2.12.4 > ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 > ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1 > > Versions of packages pbuilder suggests: > ii cowdancer 0.70 > ii gdebi-core 0.8.5 > pn pbuilder-uml <none> > > -- debconf information: > pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ > pbuilder/nomirror: > pbuilder/rewrite: false > > _______________________________________________ > Pbuilder-maint mailing list > pbuilder-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pbuilder-maint > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
