Bug#988227: nis: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator
Dear Francesco, Am 08.05.21 um 14:19 schrieb Francesco P. Lovergine: Thanks for the report, but I can't see why a line like: if [ ! -z "$PREV_VER" -a $(dpkg --compare-versions "$PREV_VER" lt '4~'; echo $?) -eq 0 ] should fail under dash (which is even the default shell on Debian). You are trying to upgrade 4.2 to 4.2 in this case. That was only to reproduce the issue. Originally I upgrade from 3.17.1-5. 2021-05-06 08:52:34 upgrade nis:ppc64el 3.17.1-5 4.2 Then it should run like: if [ ! -z "4.2" -a $(dpkg --compare-versions "4.2" lt '4~'; echo $?) -eq 0 ] and it works perfectly fine under dash. :-? With `set -xe` in `/var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst`: $ sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst configure 4.2 + umask 022 + PREV_VER=4.2 + dpkg --compare-versions 4.2 lt 4~ + [ ! -z 4.2 -a -eq 0 ] /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 78: [: -eq: unexpected operator + rm -f /etc/init.d/nis Could you please verify that /bin/sh links /bin/dash and what is the dash version via dpkg -l ? ``` $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 5 17:47 /bin/sh -> dash $ dpkg -l dash Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= ii dash 0.5.11+git20200708+dd9ef66+really0.5.11+git20200708+dd9ef66-5ubuntu1 ppc64el POSIX-compliant shell ``` Kind regards, Paul
Bug#988227: nis: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator
Thanks for the report, but I can't see why a line like: if [ ! -z "$PREV_VER" -a $(dpkg --compare-versions "$PREV_VER" lt '4~'; echo $?) -eq 0 ] should fail under dash (which is even the default shell on Debian). You are trying to upgrade 4.2 to 4.2 in this case. Then it should run like: if [ ! -z "4.2" -a $(dpkg --compare-versions "4.2" lt '4~'; echo $?) -eq 0 ] and it works perfectly fine under dash. :-? Could you please verify that /bin/sh links /bin/dash and what is the dash version via dpkg -l ? On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 09:30:30AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Package: nis Version: 4.2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I encountered this in Ubuntu [1], but they use the Debian package. With `/bin/sh` being dash and not Bash, the postinst script fails. ``` $ sudo apt reinstall nis Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 14.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://de.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports hirsute/universe ppc64el nis all 4.2 [14.2 kB] Fetched 14.2 kB in 0s (110 kB/s) (Reading database ... 420369 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt/archives/nis_4.2_all.deb ... update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/nis Unpacking nis (4.2) over (4.2) ... Setting up nis (4.2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator ``` Using `/bin/bash` in the shebang of the postinst script, and doing `dpkg -a --configure` worked around this issue. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/1927540 [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-nis-team/nis/-/blob/master/debian/postinst#L76 -- Francesco P. Lovergine
Bug#988227: nis: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator
Package: nis Version: 4.2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I encountered this in Ubuntu [1], but they use the Debian package. With `/bin/sh` being dash and not Bash, the postinst script fails. ``` $ sudo apt reinstall nis Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 14.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://de.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports hirsute/universe ppc64el nis all 4.2 [14.2 kB] Fetched 14.2 kB in 0s (110 kB/s) (Reading database ... 420369 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt/archives/nis_4.2_all.deb ... update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/nis Unpacking nis (4.2) over (4.2) ... Setting up nis (4.2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator ``` Using `/bin/bash` in the shebang of the postinst script, and doing `dpkg -a --configure` worked around this issue. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/1927540 [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-nis-team/nis/-/blob/master/debian/postinst#L76
