Re: 1.3 install report

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
> > [1] When doing an [A]cess in dselect, I've got error messages from 
> > the shell about a find command with bad syntax.
> 
> Can you run "script" and see if it catches that output, please?

I noticed this a little while ago.  It is not a syntax error, it is caused by piping the output of 

  find ... -name '*.deb'    (from /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup perhaps ?)

into head -1, because the head terminates and so kills the find with a ``Broken Pipe''.  I'm not sure if there are any more places this occurs, but the following patch should fix setup.

Cheers, Phil.

--- /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup	Wed Feb 12 05:39:08 1997
+++ /tmp/setup	Mon Apr 14 09:19:24 1997
@@ -429,8 +429,8 @@
 		echo "\`$2' does not exist."
 		return
 	fi
-	if ! find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print \
-		2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep . >/dev/null
+	if ! { find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print \
+		| head -1 | grep . ; } >/dev/null 2>&1
 	then
 		echo "\`$2' does not contain any *.deb packages.  Hmmpf."
 		return