Sorry for losing this bug, I was kinda overwhelmed for a while and confused this with the ssh signalling bugs; then I promptly forgot it. Pinging old bugs is good, it forces me to de-rust my brain!
What I'm a bit puzzled about is why aptitude does the second --configure run at all. This is a very old line of code, and I think it's probably because dselect did. However, I just did a quick check and neither apt-get nor synaptic calls dpkg a second time after a failure. It might be sensible to just remove that system() call entirely, rather than getting into messy details of how dpkg expects its environment to be set up. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
