Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:47:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:31:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > debootstrap is still saying: 'Failure trying to run: dpkg
> > --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force'
>
> it would be nice if we could get more data as to whats really causing
> this. ill try and look at this tonite.
In my case (hppa unstable), I got this as a result of gcc-3.0-base
having a postinst that did a "read foo", and ran the shell -e. stdin
is directed from /dev/null, so the read fails, and '-e' means the
script exits code 1. I've hacked my dbootstrap to feed debootstrap
a string of '\n' rather than /dev/null for now.
I will file a bug against gcc-3.0 now bugs.d.o is back and I can
see there doesn't appear to be one filed already.
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:03:30PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > I have a problem with this; my gcc-3.0-base.deb has a postinst
> > with a "read foo" in it, and a first line of "#!/bin/sh -e".
> > That -e causes the script to exit with code 1 when the read
> > fails (which it does, when directed from /dev/null). That
> > causes the postinst to fail, and debootstrap never manages
> > to get all packages configured.
>
> Check for DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive, and don't prompt if it's set
> like that.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
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