Bug#1009069: dpkg ignores --force-not-root in statoverride/main.c

2022-04-06 Thread John Spencer
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.9 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: maillist-d...@barfooze.de the code in statdb_node_apply, unlike all other functions trying to chown a file, ignores --force-not-root, which breaks usage in a non-root container. see attached patch to fix the issue (it

Bug#686502: XZ embedded bug unpacking linux-3.8.tar.xz

2013-02-26 Thread John Spencer
On 02/26/2013 07:43 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: 26.02.2013 03:21, John Spencer wrote: [ quoting the full mail of lasse since it didnt make its way into the bb maillist yet ] Additionally there has been a discussion and attempts to cook up a patch in Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/686502