Bug#683271: [bash] preinst failing on kfreebsd

[Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>]

Package: bash
Version: 4.2-4
Severity: serious
Tags: sid wheezy
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Hi!

bash preinst is failing on kfreebsd:


> Preparing to replace bash 4.2-2 (using .../bash_4.2-4_kfreebsd-amd64.deb) ...
> bash.preinst: cannot set close-on-exec flag: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-4_kfreebsd-amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-4_kfreebsd-amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files   6.9
ii  dash         0.5.7-3
ii  debianutils  4.3.2
ii  libc0.1      2.13-33
ii  libtinfo5    5.9-10

Versions of packages bash recommends:
pn  bash-completion  <none>

Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn  bash-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information