[arch-dev-public] [signoff] fakeroot 1.8.10-2

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 4, 2008 11:12 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >> This version fixes the fakeroot/acl/makepkg bug when using cp -a on
> >> directories. For details, see
> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8214#comment22826
> >
> > Wow, the fix doesn't include sweeping code changes and yet this bug
> > has been around for a while. Where did this patch come from? Does
> > upstream have it?
>
> I took the time and wrote the patch, thus upstream does not have it.
> Actually, this patch is only a workaround: It makes it look like the
> underlying filesystem never supports ACLs when writing them (you can
> still read ACLs though). coreutils falls back to a function called
> chmod_or_fchmod in this case, which apparently uses either chmod or
> fchmod to set the mode, both of which are wrapped by fakeroot. It may
> not fix other broken tools, but I don't know about any other breakage.
>
> For us this is fine, as pacman packages (tarballs) should only contain
> normal Unix permissions (I doubt that tar has support for ACLs anyway)
> and most of our users don't even use ACLs. However, this does not extend
> the fakeroot environment to support ACLs, thus it is not a good thing
> for an upstream package: The patch would probably be rejected.

Well, wow, thanks a lot. This is great work.
Do you happen to have a test case for me to test? Or should I just
mount something with ACLs and compare to a package build without ACLs?