Re: set +e before executing scripts in pre/postinst scripts?
Hi,
>>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
Martin> Due to bash bug #23857, the installation of several daemon packages
Martin> will fail if `set -a' or `set -o allexport' has been used in the root
Martin> shell that executes dpkg.
Martin> Francesco Potorti` proposed to to make the pre- and post- installation
Martin> scripts set "+e" before executing a subscript.
Martin> Can this please be discussed here and perhaps made policy?
Ian has already objected to this, and I add my voice to
his. If this is a bug in bash, this should be fixed. Under no
circumstances should policy dictate ugly kludges to work around bugs
in a package.
In other words, I object strongly to this being put in
policy.
manoj
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