On 2011-02-06 22:52 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:07:38 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:
>
> [...]
>> For the time being, I'll probably add the abort-install handling code
>> to the postrm script, since I want to avoid major changes (there are
>> already too many changes pending for the next upload).
>
> OK, I am trying to test this fix, but I am having a hard time in
> simulating an unpack failure! :-/
>
> Is there a reasonably simple way to make the unpack operation fail
> during a "dpkg -i package.deb" inside a throw-away sid chroot, without
> altering package.deb?
No, but for this purpose you could temporary add some file to
apt-listbugs that is already in another package. Or create a local
package that shares files with apt-listbugs.
> In other words, I would like to simulate an unpack failure issue in a
> package.
The file conflicts mentioned above would be easy to introduce, it seems.
Cheers,
Sven
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