Hi On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:37:46PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Martin > > Not yet tested: Would the attached debdiff solve the issue? > > Even we have the alternate dependency, test first if /sbin/MAKEDEV is > executable, and only the run it. And even it this fails, then return > true. It is done in simlilar way in mcelog package. > > Bests > Salvatore
> diff -u vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
> --- vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
> +++ vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
> @@ -24,8 +24,12 @@
> if [ ! -e /dev/.udev ] && [ ! -e /dev/.udevdb ] && \
> [ ! -e /dev/net/tun ]; then
> echo -n "Creating /dev/net/tun with default MAKEDEV permissions:
> "
> - (cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV tun)
> - echo "done."
> + if [ -x /sbin/MAKEDEV ]; then
> + (cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV tun) || true
> + echo "done."
> + else
> + echo "not created."
> + fi
> fi
> ;;
>
> diff -u vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
> --- vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
> +++ vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +vtun (3.0.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
> +
> + * Non-maintainer upload.
> + * Create /dev/tun in postinst only if /sbin/MAKEDEV is executable
> + (Closes: #595931).
> +
> + -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com> Wed, 08 Sep 2010
> 21:24:22 +0200
> +
> vtun (3.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Stop installing deprecated modutils conffile. (Closes: #518314).
Ok, tested now in a chroot:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
liblzo2-2 libssl0.9.8 libudev0 udev
Recommended packages:
usbutils pciutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liblzo2-2 libssl0.9.8 libudev0 udev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1600kB of archives.
After this operation, 4239kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sid/main liblzo2-2 amd64 2.03-2
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Get:2 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sid/main libssl0.9.8 amd64 0.9.8o-2
[945kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sid/main libudev0 amd64 161-1 [113kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sid/main udev amd64 161-1 [482kB]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
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Selecting previously deselected package liblzo2-2.
(Reading database ... 6116 files and directories currently installed.)
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Selecting previously deselected package libssl0.9.8.
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Selecting previously deselected package libudev0.
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Selecting previously deselected package udev.
Unpacking udev (from .../archives/udev_161-1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up liblzo2-2 (2.03-2) ...
Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8o-2) ...
Setting up libudev0 (161-1) ...
Setting up udev (161-1) ...
A chroot environment has been detected, udev not started.
Setting up vtun (3.0.2-3.1) ...
Creating /dev/net/tun with default MAKEDEV permissions: not created.
update-rc.d: warning: vtun stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB
Default-Stop values (none)
So it installs udev, does not start it as we are in a chroot
environment and thus as /sbin/MAKEDEV is not present here, does not
create the tun device.
Maybee the above patch could be done better and improved.
Bests
Salvatore
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