Sorry for the delay, I uploaded checkinstall 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-4 which has this fix.
Stephen On Oct 23, 2023 at 9:58:53 AM, Stephen Gelman <ssg...@debian.org> wrote: > It’s maintained, however the upstream no longer exists so I need to vet > any patches myself. I will take a look at the provided patch and get it > uploaded! > > Stephen > > On Oct 20, 2023 at 8:56:31 AM, Siddh Raman Pant <c...@siddh.me> wrote: > >> Is the package no longer maintained? If it is, it should be removed from >> the repo. >> >> It is 2023, and checkinstall is still broken. >> >> Thanks, >> Siddh >> >> On Sat, 02 Jul 2022 02:18:35 +0000 Geoffrey Hausheer < >> debianbug...@pblue.org> wrote: >> >> Package: checkinstall >> >> Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2 >> >> Followup-For: Bug #717778 >> >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debianbug...@pblue.org >> >> >> It appears that the root of this issue may be in instw_setpathrel >> >> Specifically, the 'stat' command that is used to get the length of a >> symlink should >> >> be 'lstat' instead. >> >> >> Here is a 1 line-patch that addressed the issue for me: >> >> >> --- a/installwatch/installwatch.c >> >> +++ b/installwatch/installwatch.c >> >> @@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ >> >> if ( dirfd == AT_FDCWD ) return instw_setpath(instw, relpath); >> >> >> >> snprintf(proc_path, PROC_PATH_LEN, "/proc/self/fd/%d", dirfd); >> >> - if(true_stat(proc_path, &s) == -1) >> >> + if(true_lstat(proc_path, &s) == -1) >> >> goto out; >> >> if(!(newpath = malloc(s.st_size+strlen(relpath)+2))) >> >> goto out; >> >> >> >> >> -- System Information: >> >> Debian Release: 11.3 >> >> APT prefers stable-updates >> >> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, >> 'stable') >> >> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >> >> >> Kernel: Linux 5.10.67-zfs (SMP w/4 CPU threads) >> >> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, >> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE >> >> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set >> >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> >> Init: unable to detect >> >> >> Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: >> >> ii dpkg-dev 1.20.10 >> >> ii file 1:5.39-3 >> >> ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3 >> >> ii sensible-utils 0.0.14 >> >> >> Versions of packages checkinstall recommends: >> >> ii make 4.3-4.1 >> >> >> Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: >> >> ii gettext 0.21-4 >> >> >> -- Configuration Files: >> >> /etc/checkinstallrc changed [not included] >> >> >> -- no debconf information >> >> >> >>
