Comment 7 for bug 7278

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 19:33:05 +0200
From: Robert Millan <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#262608 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#262608: FTBFS when "gain-root" command
 gains real root.)

reopen 262608
thanks

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:18:13AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Robert Millan <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > Package: gdbm
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Building gdbm when "gain-root" command gains real root (e.g. -rsudo)
> > leaves the source tree in an unconsistent state. The next time build is
> > attempted (either with -rsudo or -rfakeroot) it will fail with:
>
> Err, duh. HTF am I meant to fix that? You can't mix and match -rsudo
> with -rfakeroot and expect it to work. The former is going to
> permanently chown files to root that -rfakeroot obviously can't work
> with.

That's not what I said. The problem happens when only using -rsudo. Try
this:

  for i in 1 2 ; do dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo ; done

I found the exact same problem in exim4. Please look at bug #262607, they
already applied a fix and it might provide some indication.

Thanks,

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Robert Millan

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