Package: cli-common
Version: 0.9+nmu1
Severity: wishlist
[I'm not sure which package to report this against, so I'm guessing.
Please reassign as appropriate.]
I build Debian Live environments using debootstrap and then chroot + apt.
I deliberate don't mount /proc inside the chroot,
because just INSTALLING packages usually works without /proc,
and with /proc mounted some postinsts get confused and trash the build host.
The two notable exceptions are CLR and JVM,
both of which flat out refuse to work if /proc isn't mounted:
root@zygon:~# chroot /tmp/bootstrap/live apt-get install gbrainy
[...]
Setting up libglib2.0-cil (2.12.10-5.1) ...
W: removing assembly: Mono requires /proc to be mounted. failed!
E: installing Assembly
/usr/share/cli-common/policies.d/libglib2.0-cil/policy.2.6.glib-sharp.dll failed
E: Installation of policy.2.6.glib-sharp with
/usr/share/cli-common/runtimes.d/mono failed
dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0-cil (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-cil:
libgtk2.0-cil depends on libglib2.0-cil (= 2.12.10-5.1); however:
Package libglib2.0-cil is not configured yet.
Until today, I just gave up and banned CLR entirely at my site.
However I ran into a FreeBSD .NET developer who says he has fixed this for
FreeBSD builds:
https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup/commit/d5ce08014a174b006a3b409b8bb93d003ae583a0
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/commit/b306172d0545e2a292619b880a3c8d07bb46d396
Please investigate whether this work can be applied to Debian's CLR,
so that CLR postinsts can be run when /proc isn't mounted.
