Re[2]: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package
Jeremy Higgs wrote:
>>Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old
>>version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg
>>try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just
>>crashes. What you could do is just modifying the
>>/var/lib/dpkg/info/rcf.prerm file, in order to remove the bad lines,
>>those who try to remove /etc/init.d/firewall. Or, maybe cleaner, just
>>do a :
>>
>>echo -n "" > /etc/init.d/firewall
>>
>>which will create an empty firewall file, which will be deleted by
>>dpkg.
>>
>>But, be quiet, that isn't a problem (again! :) with your new package,
>>
JH> I did something to that effect, and deleted all the rcf.* files in
JH> /var/lib/dpkg/info, and it now works! the replace/uninstall also
JH> seems to work, which is good!
JH> However, I get some errors (both the same, though) in the
JH> post-install (I think):
JH> root@debian:~/rcf-5.0.1# dpkg -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb
JH> (Reading database ... 47289 files and directories currently installed.)
JH> Preparing to replace rcf 5.0.1-1 (using rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
JH> /etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected
JH> Unpacking replacement rcf ...
JH> Setting up rcf (5.0.1-1) ...
JH> Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/firewall ...
JH> /etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected
JH> ---
JH> this is the /etc/init.d/firewall file:
[cut]
JH> ---
JH> I cannot see any problems, however, and because of those 'unary
JH> operator expected' errors, I cannot complete the install or start the
JH> firewall!
JH> Can anyone see any problems with the /etc/init.d/firewall file? It
JH> works (I presume) on RedHat and other systems, since I have installed
JH> it on my RedHat gateway and it works fine!
This type of error is generally caused by a bad variable name in a if
test. (e.g., in
[ $a = 0 ]
$a has not been set before). The only line which include a test with =
(format [ * = * ]) is this one:
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
I think NETWORKING should be set to yes and no executing the
/etc/init.d/networking file. In RH, that's done by
/etc/sysconfig/network, but this doesn't exist in Debian.
I don't think there's an equivalent. Maybe you can delete it, if
you think it isn't necessary. Else, you can try some workaround, like:
[ -z `ifconfig` ]
or, more complicated,
cat /proc/net/dev|grep -v "Inter-"|grep -v "face"|grep -v "lo"
(didn't try)
Or something like that. If you still think NETWORKING would be
useful for Debian, you can contact Anthony Towns (ajt@debian.org),
the netbase maintainer, and suggest him to add a such variable to
/etc/init.d/networking.
JH> thanks
bye,
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