[systemd-devel] kernel-install questions

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Marc-Antoine Perennou at 25/09/13 16:26 did gyre and
gimble:
> On 26 September 2013 00:20, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>>>> *) With /boot on fat, 'add' fails for me due to not being able to use
>>>> "cp --preserve". How is this meant to work (or was it just not tested
>>>> on fat)? Dropping "--preserve" makes it work for me.
>>>
>>> Hmm, no problems here:
>>> # cp --preserve /etc/hostname /boot; echo $?
>>> 0
>>>
>>> # rpm -q coreutils
>>> coreutils-8.21-11.fc19.x86_64
>>
>> Hm, interesting. I'll figure out what's going wrong here.
>>
> 
> 
> FYI, here it fails with my kernel compiled as standards user and
> kernel-install ran as root.
> If I first copy the ekrnel as root and then kernel-install my
> root-owned copy, it works.

Yup, same here:
[root at jimmy ~]# cp --preserve /etc/hostname /boot; echo $?
0
[root at jimmy ~]# cp --preserve /home/colin/.bashrc /boot/test; echo $?
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘/boot/test’: Operation not permitted
1

So it only works if the source file is already owned by root.

(coreutils 8.21 also)

Col

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