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



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 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).

Looks like I should learn to read ps-output ;-). Thanks for the
correction.
              cu andreas



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