Package: aspell, dictionaries-common
Version: 0.60.5.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi, this is a suggestion regarding the aspell
installation/configuration stage.
I have some stuff in my $HOME/.aspell.conf that prevents
/usr/bin/aspell from running correctly as root. When
installing/upgrading/configuring aspell via 'sudo apt-get'
or 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure', $HOME is /home/username instead
of /root or empty. Therefore config breaks.
The first patch below unsets $HOME in aspell.postinst; this
fixes the problem when aspell-autobuildhash is called by
aspell's postinst configure, which I used to verify that
$HOME is indeed the problem. Here's how I tested it:
echo 123 | sudo tee /var/lib/aspell/en.compat
mkdir /tmp/aspell.conf.test
echo junk > /tmp/aspell.conf.test/.aspell.conf
HOME=/tmp/aspell.conf.test sudo dpkg-reconfigure aspell
aspell-autobuildhash probably shouldn't be using any
personal configuration since it's updating system-wide
files. So I suspect the right solution would be to modify
aspell-autobuildhash thus. The second patch below adds
--per-conf=/dev/null to the aspell commandline and also
works for me.
Thanks,
Karl
P.S. Maybe dpkg shouldn't be letting $HOME through at all?
--- aspell.postinst.orig 2008-05-19 15:03:18.000000000 -0700
+++ aspell.postinst 2008-05-19 15:07:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] ; then
if [ -x /usr/sbin/aspell-autobuildhash ]; then
- aspell-autobuildhash
+ HOME= aspell-autobuildhash
fi
fi
--- aspell-autobuildhash.orig 2008-05-19 15:34:24.000000000 -0700
+++ aspell-autobuildhash 2008-05-19 15:35:15.000000000 -0700
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
my $options = "";
$options = "--dont-validate-affixes" unless $debug;
+ $options .= " --per-conf=/dev/null";
myerror "aspell data dir $data does not exist" unless ( -d $data );
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