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Re: Bug#179125: maintainer scripts tries to exec script in /tmp



Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I don't know who is right, but working around this issue should be
> simple, just do it they way dpkg-preconfigure does and don't execute
> the script directly. "/usr/bin/perl /tmp/config.151751" instead of
> "/tmp/config.151751".

Debconf does no such thing; if someone wants a config script that is a
compiled binary, that will work. Indeed, I even have about 4 merged bugs
open on debconf because apt-extracttemplates drops the files into /tmp
by default by default, and people mount the blasted thing no-exec (not
really debconf's bugs, but whatever).

-- 
see shy jo

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