The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4d74ed7589590400002081ccae55bbe9e6da3394
Author: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Dec 30 16:45:44 2008 +0100
dpkg: Change dir to / after chroot when using --instdir
Closes: #509578
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 53c64df..b3d2902 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-12-30 Colin Watson <[email protected]>
+
+ * src/help.c (preexecscript): Call chdir after chroot.
+
2008-12-23 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
* lib/log.c (statusfd_send): Pass to write the remaining data, not
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ceb429b..e79a9c3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Use a the warning function to uniformly print all warning messages.
* Properly use internerr to report about programming bugs.
* Do not log repeated strings when the write call wrote partial data.
+ * Change dir to / after chroot when using --instdir.
+ Thanks to Colin Watson <[email protected]>. Closes: #509578
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps's error message when a library can't be found to
diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index d7d0ae9..5d62b43 100644
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ static const char* preexecscript(const char *path, char
*const *argv) {
if (*instdir) {
if (chroot(instdir)) ohshite(_("failed to chroot to `%.250s'"),instdir);
+ if (chdir("/"))
+ ohshite(_("failed to chdir to `%.255s'"), "/");
}
if (f_debug & dbg_scripts) {
struct varbuf args = VARBUF_INIT;
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