Re: debootstrap hangs at libc6.postinst

["Hector Oron" <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Neil Williams (codehelp) has already work arround it, here a fwd: message,

The error is that sysvinitver is undefined but the black magic fails to
take account of this possibility because sysvinit "will always exist"
for Debian.

------------------------------------
--- debhelper.in/libc.postinst
+++ libc6.postinst
@@ -270,8 +270,11 @@
 #       Upgrade init if possible. There was a bug in all versions
 #       up to and including 2.75-4, which didn't affect i386 but
 #       did affect most other architectures.
+
+#  Emdebian - disabled until decision is made re busybox init vs sysvinit
 #
 sysvinitver="`dpkg -s sysvinit 2>/dev/null | grep ^Version: | sed -e
's/^Version: *//'`"
+if [ ! -z "$sysvinitver"]; then
 case "`uname -m`" in
        i?86)
                badsysvinitver="2.[0-6]*|2.7[0-3]*"
@@ -295,6 +298,7 @@
               ;;
 esac
 fi
+fi

 #DEBHELPER#

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Olaf, if you try, please give us some feedback.
This could turn into some free beer :-)

Cheers
-- 
 Héctor Orón