bad owner on /var/empty: RH6.2 sparc 3.4p1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:00:48PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> Em Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Tim Rice escreveu:
> > Shall we patch Makefile.in ?
> > 
> > --- Makefile.in.old	Tue Jun 25 16:45:42 2002
> > +++ Makefile.in	Wed Jun 26 12:49:25 2002
> > @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@
> >  	$(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)
> >  	$(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)$(PRIVSEP_PATH)
> >  	chmod 0700 $(DESTDIR)$(PRIVSEP_PATH)
> > +	chown 0 $(DESTDIR)$(PRIVSEP_PATH)
> 
> Distros will just remove this line again, otherwise they would have to start
> building packages as root.

And uid 0 has no meaning on some systems...

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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