Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP
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 course, any conffiles prompts at this stage reflect bugs in the base disks. I'm going to reassign this bug to the base package. Bruce: if this feature is now used (and if there are no conffiles prompts), could you close it ? Thanks, Ian.
Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP
[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 shell? That would certainly break in this case. Probably we need a flag to dpkg/dselect to change this behavior. Bruce -- -- Attention Radio Amateurs: For information on Linux for Hams, -- read the WWW page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, -- or e-mail the word help to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
