Package: dhcp3-server Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: important Tags: patch It is possible for network interface names to contain slashes (/) in their names (e.g. /dev/net/tun). That breaks the sed regexp in postinst.
Patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages dhcp3-server depends on: ii debconf 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.11.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dhcp3-common 3.0.1-1 Common files used by all the dhcp3 ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- debconf information excluded
--- dhcp3-3.0.1/debian/dhcp3-server.postinst~ 2005-01-14 04:25:11.000000000 +0100 +++ dhcp3-3.0.1/debian/dhcp3-server.postinst 2005-01-14 04:25:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ INTERFACES="${RET}" TMPFILE=`mktemp -q ${INITCONFFILE}.new.XXXXXX` -sed -e "s/^[[:space:]]*INTERFACES[[:space:]]*=.*/INTERFACES=\"${INTERFACES}\"/" \ +sed -e "s,^[[:space:]]*INTERFACES[[:space:]]*=.*,INTERFACES=\"${INTERFACES}\"," \ <${INITCONFFILE} >${TMPFILE} cp ${TMPFILE} ${INITCONFFILE} rm ${TMPFILE}