At 13:11 -0700 1998-07-28, Anders Hammarquist wrote: >>At 11:41 -0700 1998-07-27, Jules Bean wrote: >>>On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: >>>> BTW, someone needs to build dpkg >= 1.4.0.25 for sparc, otherwise, folks >>>> running 2.1 kernels will not have fun. >>> >>>What breaks? >> >>Everything involving unpacking a .deb. > >Well, that overstating it a bit I think. What breaks is that dpkg-deb[1] >runs chown(2) on everything it extracts from the archive, including >symlinks. In recent 2.1 kernels, there is an lchown(2) call, and chown(2) >follows symlinks (unlike 2.0 kernels where chown(2) will chown the symlink). >If the symlink dpkg-deb tries to chown is broken, it exits, as chown(2) >returned ENOENT.
I am talking about a different problem entirely. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.espy.org/> <ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
