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Re: fakeroot-hurd bug or not?
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: fakeroot-hurd bug or not? |
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Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:49:16 +0200 |
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Samuel Thibault, le Thu 08 Oct 2015 22:13:09 +0200, a écrit :
> Justus Winter, le Thu 08 Oct 2015 12:56:20 +0200, a écrit :
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-09-23 19:08:15)
> > > All that being said, we should probably not let the programs inside
> > > fakeroot believe they can write to /
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> > I'm not so sure. In my mind, fakeroot should fake as much as
> > possible, and fail at the latest point possible.
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> Yes, but we have seen cases where programs, after seeing they can
> access() /, would thus try to install stuff there and thus fail.
I've thus applied Svante's proposed patch.
Samuel