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Re: Interesting dpkg issue, plus thoughts...

bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> You don't say where the problem is, or even what program issued the
> complaint. You imply that debmake is invoking a dpkg tool incorrectly.
> When last I looked into this, I thought it was a Perl bug. There's a
> 
> 	chown(@fuser, $file) || syserr("chown of $file")
> 

This should be fixed somewhere around 1.4.0.12 or so.

The problem was that the code to determine @fuser was using the value
of getlogin() without checking the return value, causing it to fail if
no utmp entry was available for the process running the tool.  I've
replaced it with code that uses getlogin() if available, but falls
back on $LOGNAME or getuid() if necessary.



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