Hi Martin Not yet tested: Would the attached debdiff solve the issue?
Even we have the alternate dependency, test first if /sbin/MAKEDEV is executable, and only the run it. And even it this fails, then return true. It is done in simlilar way in mcelog package. Bests Salvatore
diff -u vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
--- vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
+++ vtun-3.0.2/debian/postinst
@@ -24,8 +24,12 @@
if [ ! -e /dev/.udev ] && [ ! -e /dev/.udevdb ] && \
[ ! -e /dev/net/tun ]; then
echo -n "Creating /dev/net/tun with default MAKEDEV permissions: "
- (cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV tun)
- echo "done."
+ if [ -x /sbin/MAKEDEV ]; then
+ (cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV tun) || true
+ echo "done."
+ else
+ echo "not created."
+ fi
fi
;;
diff -u vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
--- vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
+++ vtun-3.0.2/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+vtun (3.0.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Create /dev/tun in postinst only if /sbin/MAKEDEV is executable
+ (Closes: #595931).
+
+ -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:24:22 +0200
+
vtun (3.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Stop installing deprecated modutils conffile. (Closes: #518314).
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