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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:16:43PM -0500, Chris Dombroski wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:39:13AM -0500, Chris Dombroski wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Andrew Stitt wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>Its been a week since any bugs have come in with test sorcery and for the
> >>>most part the previous few weeks before that were uneventful. Barring
> >>>something major coming up tomorrow, Stable Sorcery 1.12.0 will be
> >>>released.
> >>>
> >>>In other words, now is your last chance to derail the train :-)
> >>>Im /sure/ that someone will update stable after the release and find
> >>>a problem, dont let that happen to you, you can test test sorcery out
> >>>now while we have a chance to (quickly) fix it. Dont hesitate. The fate
> >>>of stable sorcery rests in your hands.
> >>>
> >>>Okay, enough shaking the please-test-sorcery tree.
> >>>
> >>>-Andrew
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Ok , fine. After a new install test sorcery runs into problems creating 
> >>temporary directories due to the permissions of /tmp /tmp is sgid after 
> >>installation and causes temporary sorcery directories to not match the 
> >>permissions sorcery thinks they should have.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Isnt that an installer problem? /tmp should have the sticky bit not that 
> >sgid
> >bit right?
> >

> You're right it's probably something to bring up to installer team, but 
> it'll bite people who are unaware of it like I was.

No, thanks for bringing it up (it actually came up a few weeks ago
[0]).

I can at least temporarily work around the problem in sorcery while a new
iso is being generated with a fix. And if nothing else we want sorcery
to work with minimal user fuss, regardless of where the problem lies.

-Andrew

[0] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-March/010175.html

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