[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#612398: Bug#612398: ia32-libs: Please add libacl.so symlink

Philipp Kern pkern at debian.org
Wed Feb 9 09:36:36 UTC 2011


Thijs,

am Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:33:49AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > IBM's proprietary Tivoli Storage Manager backup client has ACL support
> > when
> > running on Linux.  However it's only available if libacl.so can be
> > dlopen()ed.
> > As it's still a 32bit product it runs with ia32-libs.  Could you add a
> > libacl.so -> libacl.so.1.1.0 symlink, please?  That would allow us to drop
> > the symlinking in postinst, which could go wrong upon purge when another
> > package needs to resort to the same kludge.
> Yes, we run TSM with ia32-libs aswell and it works well for us. However I
> don't know what 'ACL support' means in this context: does it mean the
> backup will include filesystem acl metadata which can later be restored?
> Or is it something different?

it's exactly that.

> As for the symlink, this may be possible I'm not sure how much effort
> there will be put for wheezy for ia32-libs, given multiarch and all.

It might even be helpful for squeeze, albeit it's a tad late for that, sadly.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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