Bug#860903: Current setup causes breakage when trying to use apt with pkcs11

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-04-21 Marga Manterola <marga at google.com> wrote:
> Package: libp11-kit0
> Version: 0.23.3-2
> Severity: important

> In my setup I have opencryptoki installed (because it's a dependency of
> tpm-tools, not because I actually need opencryptoki).  This means that the
> /etc/pkcs11 directory looks like this:

> $ ls -ld /etc/pkcs11 /etc/pkcs11/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Jan  3 14:14 /etc/pkcs11 ->
> /var/lib/opencryptoki
> drwxrwx--- 8 root pkcs11 4096 Apr 21 10:33 /etc/pkcs11/
[...]

Hello,

Isn't this where the actual breakage is located? Afaik /etc should
contain configuration files, not symlinks to unreadable empty
directories. O are there special mitigating circumstances?

cu Andreas

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