7 Apr
2013
7 Apr
'13
10:09 a.m.
On 07/04/13 18:12, Andrew Spiers wrote:
hacked the postinst script to set the permission I wanted, so bind9 installs properly.
diff --git a/debian/bind9.postinst b/debian/bind9.postinst
I find myself having to make hacks like that all the time. The Debian pre/postinst scripts are notoriously fragile, particularly when working within chroots or if it tries to talk to something via D-Bus.
Often it's faster to put a "exit 0" up the top of the pre/postinst and then manually fix up what's wrong, than to decipher the horrible scripts.
Working around problems in packaging is an incredibly unrewarding experience.
I've had to do that before too. It would be nice if there was a --force-preinit-success or --force-postinit-success or something. James