Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:47:14 -0400
From: Dubiousjim <lists+alpine-devel@jimpryor.net>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Can't build apk-tools
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:39:17AM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
> > While debugging this I noticed a larger issue with apk-tools though:
> > for some reason a bunch of files and links get (correctly) reported
> > as owned by `apk info -W /path/to/file`, but get (incorrectly)
> > reported as unowned (that is, no output and exit code 1) by `apk info
> > -e /path/to/file`.
> > 
> > Just run this to find some:
> > 
> >   find /sbin /bin /lib /usr \! -type d -exec sh -c 'apk info -q -e $1
> > \ || { apk info -W $1 2>/dev/null | fgrep -q " is owned by " && \
> >   echo $1; }' sh {} \;
> 
> Not all symlinks are owned. They get owned by a package only if
> the .apk file contained the symlink. One notable misuser is busybox,
> that uses busybox -s --install via triggers to install it's symlinks.
> When you install the utility providing the real command it overwrites
> those - and when you remove it, the bb install recreates the symlink
> back to bb.

Yeah, I thought I saw a problem that went beyond busybox though.

But never mind, this is just more of my stupidity. `apk info -e` operates on
packages not on files. I had momentarily thought it worked like
`apk info -W path/to/file 2>/dev/null` actually works.

I'm batting rather idiot today... At least doing it out loud leads to
the mistakes eventually getting discovered.

-- 
Dubiousjim
dubiousjim@gmail.com


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