Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bruce Perens writes ("Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons "):
> > However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution
> > might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH
> > environment variable that ensures that the version of
> > start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'.
> 
> Clever. This is made somewhat more sloppy by the fact that the
> script is running in a "chroot" context (dpkg --root, remember), and thus
> I'd have to create the binary directory within the target filesystem.

Sort of true.  dpkg doesn't do a chdir, though, so you can refer to
files relative to the current directory.  For example,
  ln -s /bin/true start-stop-daemon
  PATH=:$PATH dpkg --root=...

Ian.