On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 07:54:17 +0100 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Hilmar Preuße (2022-01-14 23:57:32) > > > The post install is failing when dpkg is configured with a root and run as > > > an unprivileged user. This is an issue partly with packaging and partly > > > with the upstream package (I think). The upstream issue can be remedied > > > with a patch in the packaging. > > > > > Did you test of texinfo 6.8 eventually solves the issue? > > > > Further I don't understand the use case: under which situations will a > > configuration script will be run as non-privileged user? > > None. Glenn also filed #996435, #996438 and #996542 and my answer to the > latter > also holds for this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996542#25 Josch, no need to answer disingenuously for me. There is in fact a use case and it is in the metioned bug. Thank you for providing that context. Hi Helmar, I haven't tried with texinfo 6.8. Looking at the update-fmtutil script in tex-common, which is doing most of the work in the texinfo postinst script, it looks like the issue still exists. There are many hardcoded absolute paths in that script. I believe my original suggestion still holds if update-info-dir is replaced by update-fmtutil. I'll restate my use case briefly here. The use case is installing packages as an unprivileged user to a user writable location (I don't have privileges on this machine and can't chroot). This can be done by invoking the dpkg binary with the "--force-script-chrootless" option and works, but the post install fails. Glenn
