Re: debian package cfengine2 is broken? permissions on /var/lib/cfengine2

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Kief Morris <kmorris@kief.com> (2003-10-15 13:40:52 BST):
> I'm no longer able to install the cfengine2 package from the testing 
> distribution of Debian.
> Upgrading it on machines where it's already installed doesn't seem to cause a 
> problem,
> but a new install gets an error when I do apt-get install cfengine2:
> 
>     Selecting previously deselected package cfengine2.
>    (Reading database ... 14446 files and directories currently installed.)
>     Unpacking cfengine2 (from .../cfengine2_2.0.9+2.1.0b3-1_i386.deb) ...
>     Setting up cfengine2 (2.0.9+2.1.0b3-1) ...
>     ::UNTRUSTED: Private key directory /var/lib/cfengine2 was not private!
> 
> The /var/lib/cfengine2 directory doesn't exist before I run the install, so 
> it's the
> install process which is setting up the directory and then bitching that it 
> doesn't
> like the permissions on it.
> 
> I'm asking here because I've seen a couple messages on this list about
> permissions on this directory under Debian, so I'm wondering if there's a 
> link,
> or at least people who understand what's going wrong.

I'm uploading a fix right now. It'll probably be in testing in ten
days or so, or you can cut to the chase and get it from sid tomorrow,
all being well.

BTW, if you're having what seems to be a Debian-specific problem,
best to report it to the Debian bug-tracking system. (Use reportbug
(apt-get install reportbug; reportbug) to do this easily.)

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