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On Mon, 2022-09-19 at 11:23 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
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> On Mon, 2022-09-19 at 11:29 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Shouldn't that fail in such a broken environment?
> >
> > # apt-get install --reinstall usr-is-merged
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 0 B/4732 B of archives.
> > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> > debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog
> > based frontend cannot be used. at
> > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78, <> line 1.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> > (Reading database ... 15056 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack .../usr-is-merged_30+nmu1_all.deb ...
> > Unpacking usr-is-merged (30+nmu1) over (30+nmu1) ...
> > Setting up usr-is-merged (30+nmu1) ...
> > # ls -lad /lib{,32,64,x32}
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 19 00:35 /lib -> usr/lib
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 440 Sep 19 08:59 /lib32
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 19 00:35 /lib64 -> usr/lib64
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 19 00:35 /libx32 -> usr/libx32
>
> It should, but I cannot reproduce this? Can you share the exact steps
> you used to create the chroot?
>
> # ls -lad /lib{,32,64,x32}
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 19 10:20 /lib -> usr/lib
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 10:20 /lib32
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 19 10:20 /lib64 -> usr/lib64
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 19 10:20 /libx32 -> usr/libx32
> # sh -x usrmerge/debian/usr-is-merged.preinst install
> + fail_if_unmerged
> + is_merged
> + directories=/bin /sbin /lib
> + [ -e /bin ]
> + readlink -f /bin
> + [ /usr/bin = /usr/bin ]
> + [ -e /sbin ]
> + readlink -f /sbin
> + [ /usr/sbin = /usr/sbin ]
> + [ -e /lib ]
> + readlink -f /lib
> + [ /usr/lib = /usr/lib ]
> + arch_directories=/lib64 /lib32 /libo32 /libx32
> + [ -e /lib64 ]
> + readlink -f /lib64
> + [ -e /lib32 ]
> + readlink -f /lib32
> + return 1
> + [ -e /etc/unsupported-skip-usrmerge-conversion ]
> + cat
>
>
> *********************************************************************
> *********
> *
> * The usr-is-merged package cannot be installed because this system
> does
> * not have a merged /usr.
> *
> * Please install the usrmerge package to convert this system to
> merged-/usr.
> *
> * For more information please read https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge.
> *
> *********************************************************************
> *********
>
>
> + exit 1
Never mind, the issue is that on 'apt install --reinstall' it's an
upgrade flow, not an install flow, and in the preinst we run the check
only for install. I think we should run it for upgrade too, so I'll
open an MR to do that.
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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