Hi Joey, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:14:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Helmut Grohne wrote: > > In any case it would not hurt if debhelper would support the LSB exit > > codes. This could be done for instance by treating various exit codes as > > if they were 0. > > debhelper generates a postinst that runs update-rc.d. Reassigning.
Are you sure? The failing code from my example nflogipac.postinst tells me that it was added by dh_installinit: | # Automatically added by dh_installinit | if [ -x "/etc/init.d/nflogipac" ]; then | update-rc.d nflogipac defaults >/dev/null | if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then | invoke-rc.d nflogipac start || exit $? | else | /etc/init.d/nflogipac start || exit $? | fi | fi | # End automatically added section A failure from the update-rc.d cannot make postinst fail, because the exit code is not checked. So when the initscript returns 6 invoke-rc.d (correctly?) passes on this value and makes the postinst fail. So in my view the reason for a postinst failure is unrelated to update-rc.d. Can you explain your reasoning? Also you seem to have omitted the reassigning part. Was this intentional? Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
