Debian Bug report logs - #995793
exim4-base: /tmp partition has noexec mount option; exim4-base fails

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Steve Egbert <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 19:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 546911

Found in versions apt/1.8.1, apt/0.7.23.1

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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:09:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: Bug#995793: Info received (Bug#995793: exim4-base: /tmp
 partition has noexec mount option; exim4-base fails)
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Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reassign -1 apt
Control: forcemerge 546911 995793

On 2021-10-05 S Egbert <[email protected]> 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

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