[HTCondor-users] Issues with .deb packages

[Brian Candler <B.Candler@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am installing htcondor 7.8.6 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using the Debian
squeeze packages from http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/debian/

I have found a couple of issues.

1. We happen to have a user called 'mark' on the system I'm installing.
After installing, all the condor package files were owned by user 'mark'!

$ dpkg-query -L condor | xargs ls -ld | head
drwxr-xr-x  93 root root     4096 Dec 11 12:46 /etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 mark mark     4096 Dec 11 12:46 /etc/condor
-rw-r--r--   1 mark mark   110805 Oct 25 06:33 /etc/condor/condor_config
-rw-r--r--   1 mark mark      720 Oct 25 05:10 /etc/condor/condor_config.local
drwxr-xr-x   2 mark mark     4096 Oct 25 06:33 /etc/condor/config.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Dec 11 12:46 /etc/default
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mark mark     5237 Oct 25 05:10 /etc/default/condor
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Dec 11 12:46 /etc/init.d
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mark mark    19132 Oct 25 06:33 /etc/init.d/condor
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root     4096 Oct  8 15:19 /usr
...

The 'mark' uid/gid (1001/1001) is unrelated to the 'condor' uid/gid
(108/114).

Now, in the actual package, the files are owned by user/group "slot1":

$ dpkg-deb -c /var/cache/apt/archives/condor_7.8.6-73238_amd64.deb  | head
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/
-rw-r--r-- slot1/slot1  110805 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/condor_config
-rw-r--r-- slot1/slot1     720 2012-10-25 05:10 ./etc/condor/condor_config.local
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/config.d/
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1   19132 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/init.d/condor
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/default/
-rwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1    5237 2012-10-25 05:10 ./etc/default/condor
drwxr-xr-x slot1/slot1       0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./usr/
...

And it turns out this has uid/gid 1001:

$ mkdir tmp
$ cd tmp
$ ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/condor_7.8.6-73238_amd64.deb 
$ tar --numeric-owner -tvzf data.tar.gz | head
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/
-rw-r--r-- 1001/1001    110805 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/condor_config
-rw-r--r-- 1001/1001       720 2012-10-25 05:10 ./etc/condor/condor_config.local
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/condor/config.d/
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x 1001/1001     19132 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/init.d/condor
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./etc/default/
-rwxr-xr-x 1001/1001      5237 2012-10-25 05:10 ./etc/default/condor
drwxr-xr-x 1001/1001         0 2012-10-25 06:33 ./usr/

So I think the package has been wrongly built, and the files should be
owned by root/root 0/0.

Workaround:

    dpkg-query -L condor | xargs chown 0:0


2. Is there a package signing key? I couldn't find it. Without it, I have no
assurance of package integrity.  For now I am working around this using:

deb [arch=amd64 trusted=yes] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/debian/stable/ squeeze contrib

in /etc/apt/sources.list

Many thanks,

Brian.