[arch-dev-public] coreutils 6.9 + fakeroot + makepkg serious bug

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/4/2, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> While rebuilding some packages, namcap issued some warnings:
>
> beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man1/) does not have the world readable bit set.
> beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man3/) does not have the world readable bit set.
>
> When I look at the $startdir/pkg, everything is fine though. I narrowed
> it down to the following simple test case:
>
> [01:54:30][thomas at gollum shm]$ fakeroot
> bash-3.2# ls -lF
> insgesamt 0
> bash-3.2# mkdir foo
> bash-3.2# ls -lF
> insgesamt 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40  2. Apr 01:54 foo/
> bash-3.2# chmod 700 foo/
> bash-3.2# ls -lF
> insgesamt 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40  2. Apr 01:54 foo/
> bash-3.2# exit
> [01:55:02][thomas at gollum shm]$ ls -lF
> insgesamt 0
> drwx------ 2 thomas users 40  2. Apr 01:54 foo/
> [01:55:03][thomas at gollum shm]$
>
> As you can see, the chmod has no effect inside the fakeroot environment,
> which causes a 'cp -a' in makepkg to behave incorrectly and may cause
> other similar bugs during makepkg. Downgrading coreutils from 6.9-1 to
> 6.7-1 solves this problem.
>
> I have no idea where to start, but this should be adressed quickly as it
> may break many packages. For everyone who is going to test, I found the
> old package here:
> ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686/coreutils-6.7-1.pkg.tar.gz
>
> @Romashka: If you read this, I think your exaile build bug is also
> related to this, please confirm.

Yes, I confirm this.
That bug drive me crazy when trying to build exaile.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)