Hi! On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 11:28:09 +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.7 > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-kali
> I just got a lintian warning "uses-dpkg-database-directly" on a script I > wrote a long time ago: > https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/kali-menu/blob/kali/master/update-kali-menu > > It's a script started in a postinst and/or in a DPkg::Post-Invoke hook. It > waits until dpkg is no longer running and then perform some work > (involving dpkg-divert to replace some files by our own). > > In order to wait until dpkg is no longer running, I try to grab the dpkg > lock... and thus I have hardcoded /var/lib/dpkg/lock and lintian is not > happy. > > To achieve this in a more elegant way, could you possibly implement some > "dpkg --is-running" test ? And/or maybe "dpkg --wait-lock-release" or > something similar ? I'm not sure I understand why this is not done say via a trigger instead? Also why this script cannot just called within the postinst w/o putting it on the background? Thanks, Guillem
