Hey Axel, > fakeroot preloads its lib overriding file access and identity commands > to fake the impression of being root. > > A couple of weeks ago fakeroot's chown stopped to work. This happens > even on an FC6 kernel (and a rawhide chroot), so it looks like > something changed in glibc that makes fakeroot break on chown. All > other overridden calls seems to work fine. > > Can anyone please help with what has changed and suggest how to adjust > fakeroot? > we ran into the same problem for PTXdist. The problem is not the chown but the chownat system calls. Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402688 has a patch http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402688;msg=10;filename=froot_1_5_10-atfuncs.patch;att=1 that works for fakeroot 2.5.10. - Erwin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
