On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:32:13AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So I thought I would just give you a heads up on this issue, because it > > really puzzled me, and maybe you want to check if your builds are all fine. > > Candidates are dpkg, base-files, and debianutils because their debian/rules > > commands are not careful enough to explicitely set the group to root. > > Then that's a bug in the rules of those packages. It's sloppy, and needs > to be fixed.
I agree. Luckily, I kept a list of such packages as I found them. There might be more (actually, I would assume that there are more). base-files_3.0.2 debianutils_1.16 dog_1.7-3.1 dpkg_1.9.20 ffingerd_1.28-4.1 freecdb_0.62 ftplib-dev_3.1-1-4 ftplib3_3.1-1-4 mpack_1.5-7 netenv_0.82-12 netris_0.5-4 passwd_20000902-12 scalemail_0.0.2001.08.19 tetradraw_2.0.2-4 xxkb_1.6-4 autopilot fidogate hextype kimwitu++ larswm linleech libpng2 This is out of 1400 binary packages. Assuming the the other 1380 packages are fine (which is a bold assumption already), you can extrapolate how much packages can be expected to have this problem. > Thanks for the heads-up. I believe the scripts should be fixed, > regardless. They don't handle that behaviour, and they don't fail > either. That's a bug, because this can happen even on Linux. Interesting to know, thanks for this info. > That mount option might be useful for finding this particular packaging > problem. Someone could put an autobuilder on a filesystem like that, then > run a script that scans packages for the group id the build was run > under. Wouldn't be hard, dpkg -c foo.deb | grep sbuild might work. Yes, that's how I found the above list. I took the Hurd autobuilder output, listed the content, sed'ed out the group and owner and sort'ed/uniq'ed it. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
