Debian percona-server-client-5.5 package creates /share/perl5

[Raghavendra D Prabhu]

apt-get install --reinstall percona-server-client-5.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  percona-server-client-5.5
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
17 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/21.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 73.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `percona-server-client-5.5' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 62745 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace percona-server-client-5.5 5.5.27-rel28.1-296.precise (using .../percona-server-client-5.5_5.5.27-rel28.1-296.precise_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement percona-server-client-5.5 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/percona-server-client-5.5_5.5.27-rel28.1-296.precise_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to securely remove '/share/perl5.dpkg-new': Permission denied
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/percona-server-client-5.5_5.5.27-rel28.1-296.precise_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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It looks to be because the package is trying to install at /share/ .. http://sprunge.us/jNaL

dpkg --unpack for the deb file downloaded from http://repo.percona.com/apt/pool/main/p/percona-server-5.5/percona-server-client-5.5_5.5.27-rel28.1-296.precise_amd64.deb is also failing.

[Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-prabhu)]

percona-server-client-5.5_5.5.27-rel28.1-296.squeeze_amd64.deb is also not working.

[Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-prabhu)]

Ok, it broke for me because I already had a autofs mount for 9p and that will fail.

However, this is still a bug because the package tries to create an empty /share/perl5 directory. Now, this may fail on other systems where such similar mounts may exist.

[Ignacio Nin (ignacio-nin)]

5.6 will be automatically fix when the 5.5 branch is merged onto 5.6

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1270