The info below was sent to me by one of our engineers. I also tried switching the qtree to UNIX instead of mixed but it gives me an error "qtree update: qtree security style update: qtree: There are shares with connections on qtree" Any suggestions?
Below is an example of fakeroot not working properly. First I present what should happen (this is on a local machine not using my network drive)
kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ mkdir foo kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kuebert kuebert 4096 2009-01-05 15:52 foo/ kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ fakeroot chown root:root foo kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kuebert kuebert 4096 2009-01-05 15:52 foo/ kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ touch foo/bar kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ ls -l foo total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 kuebert kuebert 0 2009-01-05 15:52 bar kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ fakeroot chown root:root foo/bar kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ ls -l foo total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 kuebert kuebert 0 2009-01-05 15:52 bar kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$ rm -rf foo kuebert@gsows-eng138:~/tmp$
This is what happens on my network home drive (I did this on gsovm-psbs03):
kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ mkdir foo kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kuebert cvs 4096 2009-01-05 15:51 foo/ kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ fakeroot chown root:root foo kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-05 15:51 foo/ kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ touch foo/bar touch: cannot touch `foo/bar': Permission denied kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$ rm -rf foo kuebert@gsovm-psbs01:~/tmp2$
So basically what I think is happening is in the second case my fakeroot command is actually changing the file on the filesystem, at least from Linux's perspective, even though it's not supposed to. When I go to touch the file in the foo directory it won't let me because it thinks the directory is owned by root:root which it is not.
Due to a problem like this I can't build deb packages without being root which is kind of a big deal (the dir permissions get hosed up and then the package creation fails).
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