Package: base-files Version: 7.5 Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-kali
In the context of a derivative distribution (Kali), I had failures with cdebootstrap. They look like this: P: Configuring package base-files D: Updating base-files to status 3 O: chown: invalid user: 'root:root' O: dpkg: error processing package base-files (--configure): O: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [...] O: Setting up base-passwd (3.5.33) ... P: Configuring package base-passwd D: Updating base-passwd to status 3 O: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 22. [...] O: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bash: O: bash depends on base-files (>= 2.1.12); however: O: Package base-files is not configured yet. O: O: dpkg: error processing package bash (--configure): O: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured When googling for this problem I came upon this bugreport explaining that the order of the configuration between base-files and base-passwd is not set in stone and might vary depending on which order packages are listed in the Packages file: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601670 So debootstrap is immune to this problem just because it manually configures base-passwd before base-files. We could probably also fix cdeboostrap in a similar way but cdebootstrap is actually relying on apt/dpkg to let them configure the packages in the right order and maybe the better fix is thus to add a "Depends: base-passwd" on base-files so that the two packages are configured in the correct order. I just deployed such a fix in Kali and it works well. I'm ccing the cdebootstrap and base-passwd maintainers in case they want to voice an opinion too. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
