bug#79433: kbd 2.9.0: build error (under fakeroot(1) environment)

Paul Eggert wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On 2025-09-20 13:43, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |>|Anyway, I'm looking into a Gnulib workaround for the fakeroot bug - and
 |>|it is a bug, in that fakeroot chown does not conform to POSIX here. That
 |>|should fix coreutils as well. It's not a bug in coreutils itself.
 |> 
 |> Thank you!
 |
 |I pushed what I hope is a workaround for the fakeroot bug into Gnulib, \
 |here:
 |
 |https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=162ce0b783b\
 |a837e5e690a5bde812341853e109b

That is great!  Yes.

 |https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=12171837a9f\
 |94971bb0c91de193543145ef68e65
 |
 |These patches also fix unlikely security races in OpenBSD.
 |
 |Fixes along these lines should appear in a future coreutils release. 
 |It's not clear whether this will be the next release (which is due 
 |shortly), but at least by the release after that.
 |
 |You should be able to test the fix now by doing something along these 
 |lines (but it may take a while):
 |
 |git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/coreutils.git
 |cd coreutils
 |./bootstrap
 |git checkout -b testbranch
 |git submodule foreach git pull origin master
 |git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib
 |./bootstrap --skip-po
 |./configure
 |make check
 |
 |Closing the coreutils bug report.
 |
 |PS. Any word on fixes for the actual bug here? The bug that's in 
 |fakeroot *ch(mod|own)* emulation?

I had Bcc'd him several times (maybe too often even), and now
place him in Cc.  I have heard nothing back until now; i think the
"if user owns, and chowns to root, and EPERM happens, updating
timestamp" would not be too fragile; it, however, is only
a guess whether it would succeed without fakeroot, so...

By the way, was this bug ever reported to OpenBSD?
I do not see anything alike in since 2013?
  https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bug
I Bcc: [email protected] and ensure it gets posted (somehow), maybe
just a miss that chown() does not update the file change time.

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Thank you!

Ciao,

--steffen
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