On 09/28/2012 11:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I'm having an issue updating a system that boots over NFS. Attempting to > upgrade the iputils package results in the following: > > ---8<------------------------------- > (1/1) upgrading iputils > [###########################] 100% > Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin/ping' (Operation not supported) > usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) > <filenameN> ] > > Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file. > Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin/ping6' (Operation not supported) > usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) > <filenameN> ] > > Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file. > ---8<------------------------------- > > I suspect this is something to do with NFS not supporting the capabilities > that setcap is trying to use, but I admit I haven't encountered capabilities > before I ran into this issue, so it's just a guess. > > Has anyone else seen this problem, or does anyone have an idea how to fix it? NFS doesn't support any capibilities, so I guess the output is to be expected... I'm not sure what to do as a workaround, though. Does the package still install and run even though it printed the warning? - Bryan > > Paul
