Re: dpkg-statoverride question

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:33:30AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > That looks weird.  Perhaps you could remove the '>/dev/null' and also
> > put in a call to dpkg-statoverride followed by "echo $?" so we can see
> > what's happening?
> 
> I think the override is getting deleted somewhere (not by me).
> 
> Once my postinst script crashed, and there was no override.

This is weird.

> I change the code to:
> 
>         adduser --system --home /var/lib/amavis --no-create-home amavis
>         echo adduser returned $?
>         for i in /var/lib/amavis /var/lib/amavis/virusmails /var/run/amavis
>         do

Can you add an
                  echo "Output of initial dpkg-statoverride --list $i:"
                  dpkg-statoverride --list $i
here?

>                 if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $i
>                 then
>                         echo "dpkg-statoverride(a) returned $?"
>                         dpkg-statoverride --update --add amavis root 755 $i
>                         echo "dpkg-statoverride(b) returned $?"
>                 fi
>                 echo "dpkg-statoverride(c) returned $?"

And an
                  echo "Output of final dpkg-statoverride --list $i:"
                  dpkg-statoverride --list $i
here?

>         done

   Julian

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