On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:48:52 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Package: checkinstall > Version: 1.6.1-5 > Followup-For: Bug #465922 > > > Has any progress been made on this? I still have the problem of the > already installed binary being deleted before checkinstall fails until > I use checkinstall with the --fstrans=no option.
Hi, I'm sorry to have forgotten about it. I think that there are two problems here. One is that since kernel 2.6.16 there are a new set of system calls (the at family of calls, such as mkdirat, openat, etc), which checkinstall doesn't handle yet. As such, we have problems working with filesystem translation in any case, since coreutils (mkdir, chown, cp and friends) have started using them. Once that problem is fixed (and upstream has been working on it but has been silent for some time), we can try to debug this behaviour (which I suspect is the same problem, since checkinstall isn't trapping unlinkat calls which may be used by rm). Again, I'm sorry for taking so long. I think I definetly have to upload a new version with the filesystem translation defaulting to off. -- Felipe Sateler
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