Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.27
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3: local changes must be preserved during a package
upgrade
The postinst script generates errors when it greps through my modified
/etc/cron.d/apticron file. All I did was to comment out the cron entry
like below, as I prefer to run a more complicated script from
/etc/cron.daily/apticron:
# cron entry for apticron
#57 22 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron
I don't think this is unreasonable behavior, as the postinst script should
be able to handle such changes to a config file.
I added "set -x" to the postinst to get this debug output to diagnose
the problem:
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up apticron (1.1.27) ...
+ case "$1" in
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
++ '[' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/apticron.postinst
configure 1.1.25
+ case "$1" in
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' 1 ']'
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ exec
++ '[' '' ']'
++ exec
++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1
++ export DEBCONF_REDIR
+ db_get apticron/notification
+ _db_cmd 'GET apticron/notification'
+ IFS=' '
+ printf '%s\n' 'GET apticron/notification'
+ IFS='
'
+ read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET=root
+ case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in
+ return 0
+ EMAIL=root
+ '[' '!' -d /etc/apticron/ ']'
++ mktemp -t apticron.conf.XXXXXXXXXX
+ tmpfile=/tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj
+ cat
+ ucf --debconf-ok --three-way /tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj
/etc/apticron/apticron.conf
+ rm -f /tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj
+ '[' -f /etc/cron.d/apticron ']'
++ grep -v '^[[:space:]]*\(\#\|$\)' /etc/cron.d/apticron
++ read min hour null
+ time=
dpkg: error processing apticron (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apticron
In this case, the grep statement is returning nothing, which I think causes
the read to generate the error.
You probably need to do some error checking in the postinst, such as to
grep -q first to make sure there is some ouput from it.
Thanks,
Cameron
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 0.7.20.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii apt-listchanges 2.83 package change history notificatio
ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
apticron suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
apticron/notification: root
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