Package: base-files Version: 5.1 Severity: normal To help investigate bug 571457, I wanted to compile an openvz upstream kernel obtained by
cd /usr/src
git clone git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.26-openvz openvz-git-kernel
For the actual kernel compile, I configured and then tried the Debian way:
cd /usr/src/openvz-git-kernel
make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
Expected result: A linux-image .deb package gets built.
Result seen: The build fails, with an error message
dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be >=0755
and <=0775)
My analysis: base-files sets up /usr/src with the g+s permission bit,
that bit infects my entire source directory tree, make-kpkg doesn't like
that.
My take on this: Various Debian packages should fit together, but
base-files and make-kpkg don't, in this respect.
My own suggestion towards how to achieve cooperation: Drop the g+s bit
from /usr/src.
My workaround does exactly that:
chroot -R g-s .
Final "pea-counting" remarks on the precise package version:
The build actually failed on a Lenny system with base-files version 5lenny5.
I verified that it is the base-files package that sets up the g+s
permission, via
rm -rf /usr/src
aptitude reinstall base-files
ls -l /usr
But I did this verification on a different system (in fact, an openvz
guest of the Lenny system host) which has "testing" installed.
I didn't bother to retry the entire kernel compilation on that "testing"
system. (I would be willing to do that if people think it's worth the
effort.)
Regards, and thank you for providing fine software,
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.22 Debian base system master
password
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-15 a pattern scanning and text
proces
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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