Package: ess Version: 5.2.6-1 Severity: normal After sudo was upgraded to 1.6.8p7-1.3 due to a security fix it does not seem to set SHELL environment variable anymore. This breaks "sudo apt-get install ess". I am not sure if this should be seen as a bug in ess or sudo so please feel free to reassign.
Steps to reproduce: 1) unset SHELL; apt-get install ess OR sudo apt-get install ess Expected results: 1) ess should be installed. Actual results: 1) ess installation fails with the following messages: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: xlispstat r-base pspp The following NEW packages will be installed: ess 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 786kB of archives. After unpacking 4366kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://kurp.hut.fi sarge/main ess 5.2.6-1 [786kB] Fetched 786kB in 0s (11.6MB/s) Selecting previously deselected package ess. (Reading database ... 127460 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ess (from .../archives/ess_5.2.6-1_all.deb) ... Setting up ess (5.2.6-1) ... install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21 loading 'ess-emcs .. loading 'ess-cust .. loading 'ess .. loading 'ess-site .. [ess-site:] after (eval-and-compile ..) [ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'essd-** .... [ess-site:] require 'essd-r ... [essd-r:] (require 'essl-s) [essl-s:] (def** ) only ... [essd-r:] (autoload ..) & (def** ..) [ess-site:] require 'essd-sp3 ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-sp5 ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-sp6 ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-sta ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-xls ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-vst ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-arc ... [ess-site:] require 'essd-sas ... [essd-sas:] require 'comint & 'shell ... [essd-sas:] require 'essl-sas ... [essl-sas:] (require 'ess) ... [essl-sas:] (require 'ess-mode) ... [essl-sas:] (autoload ..) (def** ..) etc ... Wrong type argument: stringp, nil emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess emacs21 emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1. dpkg: error processing ess (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: ess E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Proposed fix: A simple fix is to assume SHELL=/bin/sh if (getenv "SHELL") fails: --- /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/essa-sas.el~ 2005-03-22 15:48:24.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/essa-sas.el 2006-01-31 16:09:44.504163232 +0200 @@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ ;; this should avoid the necessity of each user needing to set this ;; variable correctly based on the shell that they use and provide ;; an environment where all shells are treated equally - (let* ((temp-shell (getenv "SHELL")) + (let* ((temp-shell (if (getenv "SHELL") + (getenv "SHELL") + "/bin/sh")) (temp-char (string-match "/" temp-shell))) (while temp-char -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages ess depends on: ii emacs21 [emacsen] 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
