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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=ee8be1388758cb0e71cfbf7cb61d543040442f86 commit ee8be1388758cb0e71cfbf7cb61d543040442f86 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Nov 29 02:22:37 2019 +0100 libdpkg: Create the updates/ database directory on demand --- debian/changelog | 1 + lib/dpkg/dbmodify.c | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 11e8df6d7..589d4df3e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ dpkg (1.20.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium we are running as root:root which means the ownership should be correct already, or we are not which means we cannot change it anyway. - Create the dpkg database directory on demand. + - Create the updates/ database directory on demand. * Perl modules: - Dpkg::Source::Package: Verify original tarball signatures at build time. - Dpkg::BuildFlags: Add new unset() method. diff --git a/lib/dpkg/dbmodify.c b/lib/dpkg/dbmodify.c index 40340865d..a6f8a0bcc 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/dbmodify.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/dbmodify.c @@ -85,8 +85,16 @@ static void cleanupdates(void) { *updatefnrest = '\0'; updateslength= -1; cdn= scandir(updatefnbuf, &cdlist, &ulist_select, alphasort); - if (cdn == -1) + if (cdn == -1) { + if (errno == ENOENT) { + if (cstatus >= msdbrw_write && + dir_make_path(updatefnbuf, 0755) < 0) + ohshite(_("cannot create the dpkg updates directory %s"), + updatefnbuf); + return; + } ohshite(_("cannot scan updates directory '%.255s'"), updatefnbuf); + } if (cdn) { for (i=0; i<cdn; i++) { -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
