Hi, > > dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels; > > due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of > > zero-byte length): > > > > addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); > > > > These bugs are caused by mmap changing behavior; > > it used to return NULL when given a length of 0. > > However, it now returns -1, and gives back an errno=EINVAL. > > > Indeed. This was the sole change in the 1.13.8 release. Thanks, I didn't notice it was since 2.6.12. woody dpkg was long broken. I've only seen more recent reports about this. To fix this problem, will require update to dpkg in woody; which might not be feasible. We could drop support of woody chroots in etch. It might be possible to add a workaround hack in [c]debootstrap to trap mmap; or fill status/available files before invoking dpkg. I'm not quite sure why sarge manages to bootstrap despite having a dpkg version (1.10.28) that shouldn't work. regards, junichi
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