I have the code for a project (systemd) on my git server. The git server exports the share *(rw,all_squash,anonuid=500,anongid=500). All files in the share are owned by uid 500. Root on my client tries to run autogen against this source tree and fails with: libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh' to `./' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'. libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `m4/' libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' to `m4/' libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' to `m4/' I see in an strace (but no idea where this statement went): 27793 write(2, "tar: ", 5) = 5 27793 write(2, "ltoptions.m4: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0", 53) = 53 27793 write(2, ": Invalid argument", 18) = 18 27793 write(2, "\n", 1) But I don't care that you couldn't set the uid/gid. The file copied just fine. How can we make this not fail?
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I was unable to reproduce this before.. but I talked with Eric and the trigger was NFS. Command 'libtoolize' uses (because it want's to preserve timestamps probably and copy targets of links) the program 'tar' as a copy tool - there is (during 'libtoolize --copy') done something like this: tar -chf - FILE | tar -xf - The problem is that tar is trying to store/restore also uid/gid (when ran under root! only). If NFS does not allow 'chown'-like operations, tar fails to do what basically promises. The solution would be (for GNU tar/bsdtar): tar -chf - FILE | tar -x --no-same-owner -f - Which is not upstream-able due to limited portability. I also don't know, how usable libtool is on NFS at all. I'll definitely think about this, re-opening and assigning to rawhide, Pavel
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Created attachment 739033 [details] Possible fix. I have looked at upstream code and the relevant code was completely removed/re-written. Libtool seems to be fixed in 'master' branch, but backporting of the patches does not look like a good idea (too big changes, and not yet released..). As the new libtool release will fix this automatically, I will apply something like attached fix for Fedora as an workaround. This will be safe.. by default, the tar utility will be run with --no-same-owner during extraction. This option can be overwritten e.g. when 'star' is used instead of 'tar': $ TAR=star TAR_NO_OWNER=--no-same-owner libtoolize .. Pavel
> $ TAR=star TAR_NO_OWNER=--no-same-owner libtoolize .. Argh, this is bad of course: $ TAR=star TAR_NO_OWNER=-nochown libtoolize ..
Change is committed f19/rawhide: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=ff35f7147754313eeec7703ac46c00a56195b2e8
libtool-2.4.2-14.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libtool-2.4.2-14.fc19
Package libtool-2.4.2-14.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libtool-2.4.2-14.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-6802/libtool-2.4.2-14.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).