File-based capabilities missing after installation

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 6 May 2014 14:21:35 +0200, Marcus Karlsson <mk at acc.umu.se> said:

    > unable to use the ping program. It turns out that Ubuntu nowdays (at
    > least 14.04) don't use setuid for ping and relies on file based
    > capabiltiies instead. But this is not preserved during the installation.

    > Has anyone else run into this, or has any ideas on what we can do to
    > solve it? Reinstalling the package fixes it but we would like to avoid
    > that if possible.
Can you have a look at the postisnt script of the package which you
have reinstalled (I guess the package that contains the ping
executable). What do they do inside this script to set the
capabiltiies?

Maybe we only need to add the libcap2 package into FAI?

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regards Thomas