Hi, My mail about the issue in tar should have gone to 926722, not 926698.
Ivo On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:10:16PM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:05:00PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > On 2019-04-09 11:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > 0m17.9s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: > > > /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt (tar) > > > > > > 0m22.0s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: > > > /usr/sbin/rmt -> /etc/alternatives/rmt not owned > > [...] > > > Cloning the bug to tar, since its prerm contains a similar construct. > > (And I don't mean the update-alternatives call ...) > > > > remove|deconfigure) > > update-alternatives --remove rmt /usr/sbin/rmt-tar > > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > > rm -f /sbin/rmt > > fi > > ;; > > > > Probable use > > > > if ! test -L /sbin && test -L /sbin/rmt && ... > > > > I think the code trying to remove the /sbin/rmt symlink should just be > removed. tar stopped creating it in 1.15.1-1 (2005). > > Thanks, > > Ivo > >
