Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.0 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/update-alternatives User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-root-support
The update-alternatives program, when run from a maintainer script with DPKG_ROOT set, should respect that variable in order to facilitate bootstrap installations[1]. There is a patch available at [2]/[3] in which OpenEmbedded implement this (they call it "offline mode"); that patch doesn't apply anymore though since the latest update-alternative changes, and AFAICT would only work if the installation directory was the current working directory (which AFAIK is not guaranteed by dpkg). Given that update-alternatives already respects DPKG_ADMINDIR, it should be sufficient to adapt altdir to prepend DPKG_ROOT; I'm just trying a small patch to that. Note that this is distinct from #77828 which was about using u-a for user homes, while this just happens to mean that a user can also use u-a but in an out-of-root Debian installation. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap?action=subscribe [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2016/12/msg00004.html [3]: https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/134905/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1 ii libc6 2.24-14 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.3 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b2 ii tar 1.29b-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.5~beta1 pn debsig-verify <none> -- no debconf information -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
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