Subject: Re: Bug#995793: Info received (Bug#995793: exim4-base: /tmp partition has noexec mount option; exim4-base fails)

From: Andreas Metzler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:09:02 +0200

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reassign -1 apt
Control: forcemerge 546911 995793

On 2021-10-05 S Egbert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Actual workaround is to remove ‘noexec” from both /tmp and /var.
> Tested it working without “noexec” mount options on ‘apt upgrade
> exim4-base’ to versio ‘4.94.2-7’

> This makes it like a major work-stoppage of dealing with 1,000s of
> those hardened Debian systems. 
[...]

Hello,

Mounting /var noexec is not supported. For noexec /tmp you will need to
point APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir to an directory which is not
located on a noexec mount.

cu Andreas