Control: tags -1 patch On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:05:00PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2019-04-09 11:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > 0m17.9s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: > > /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt (tar) > > > > 0m22.0s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: > > /usr/sbin/rmt -> /etc/alternatives/rmt not owned > > This is caused by the prerm script which contains this not merged-usr > aware code: > > if [ "$1" = remove ]; then > update-alternatives --remove mt /bin/mt-gnu > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > rm -f /sbin/rmt > fi > fi > > Cloning the bug to tar, since its prerm contains a similar construct. > (And I don't mean the update-alternatives call ...) > > remove|deconfigure) > update-alternatives --remove rmt /usr/sbin/rmt-tar > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > rm -f /sbin/rmt > fi > ;; > > Probable use > > if ! test -L /sbin && test -L /sbin/rmt && ...
The code dealing with rmt should just be removed from cpio. rmt was removed from cpio in 2.4.2-39 (2001) and moved to tar, so cpio shouldn't change anything related to rmt. I'm tagging this bug patch, because I believe it can be fixed by removing those 3 lines from the prerm script: > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > rm -f /sbin/rmt > fi Thanks, Ivo
