Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP

1995-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Some time ago I asked: Ian M.: please arrange for the environment variable DPKG_NO_TSTP to be set to some non-empty value (like yes) when dselect is invoked in this way. This will cause dpkg to invoke $SHELL -i instead (or sh -i if SHELL isn't set). This feature will be in 0.93.79. Of

Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP

1995-09-28 Thread Bruce Perens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the problem? Does dpkg attempt to suspend itself rather than fork off a