On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 11:34:31PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 01:19:27PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote: > > Using update-binfmts with the same magic and fix-binary twice, will > > install the detector on the second call. However, this breaks fix-binary > > since the whole point of fixed binary is to allow to use the interpreter > > inside a container/chroot. If a detector is in the play, this detector > > won't be able to load the interpreter from inside the container/chroot. > > > > I think it would be more sensible for binfmt-support to warn the user on > > the second invocation. > > This is a good point, thanks. I think your patch adds the warning in > slightly the wrong place, though, as it misses the case where a detector > is requested explicitly (e.g. using --detector), which has essentially > the same problem. We should probably also document the situation. > > What do you think of the attached patch against upstream master?
I've gone ahead and pushed this to master. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
