Source: debianutils Version: 5.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
creating a sub-essential chroot based on busybox used to work: mmdebstrap --variant=custom \ --include=base-files,base-passwd,busybox,debianutils,dpkg,libc-bin,mawk,tar \ --extract-hook='chroot "$1" busybox --install -s' \ unstable /dev/null But probably since 5.1-1 it fails with: --%<--------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting up debianutils (5.3-1) ... chmod: unrecognized option '--reference=/etc/shells' BusyBox v1.30.1 (Debian 1:1.30.1-6+b3) multi-call binary. Usage: chmod [-Rcvf] MODE[,MODE]... FILE... Each MODE is one or more of the letters ugoa, one of the symbols +-= and one or more of the letters rwxst -R Recurse -c List changed files -v List all files -f Hide errors dpkg: error processing package debianutils (--install): installed debianutils package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 -->%--------------------------------------------------------------------- The following patch fixes the problem with chmod and sync (the busybox version only has the short option): --- a/update-shells +++ b/update-shells @@ -133,14 +133,14 @@ done if [ "$NOACT" = 0 ]; then if [ -e "$STATE_FILE" ]; then - chmod --reference="$STATE_FILE" "$NEW_STATE_FILE" - chown --reference="$STATE_FILE" "$NEW_STATE_FILE" + chmod $(stat -c %a "$STATE_FILE") "$NEW_STATE_FILE" + chown $(stat -c %a "$STATE_FILE") "$NEW_STATE_FILE" else chmod 0644 "$NEW_STATE_FILE" fi - chmod --reference="$SOURCE_ETC_FILE" "$NEW_ETC_FILE" - chown --reference="$SOURCE_ETC_FILE" "$NEW_ETC_FILE" - sync --data "$NEW_ETC_FILE" "$NEW_STATE_FILE" + chmod $(stat -c %a "$SOURCE_ETC_FILE") "$NEW_ETC_FILE" + chown $(stat -c %a "$SOURCE_ETC_FILE") "$NEW_ETC_FILE" + sync -d "$NEW_ETC_FILE" "$NEW_STATE_FILE" mv "$NEW_ETC_FILE" "$TARGET_ETC_FILE" sync "$TARGET_ETC_FILE" sync "$(dirname "$TARGET_ETC_FILE")" Thanks! cheers, josch