Hi,
Dan Wallis wrote:
> From what I can tell, it's adduser sending some output to STDOUT which
> is causing this postinst script to fail. It looks like the --quiet
> flag isn't being respected, and lines 29-33 of
> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule are ineffective, or at least don't seem
> to do what their comments say they should.
I see that this was fixed in sid; thanks! Now the question is what to
do in stable.
If I understand correctly, the underlying problem still exists in
net-snmp. snmpd.postinst says:
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_version 2.0
#DEBHELPER#
which looks pretty innocuous, except that #DEBHELPER# part expands to
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/snmpd" ]; then
update-rc.d snmpd defaults >/dev/null
invoke-rc.d snmpd start || exit $?
fi
# End automatically added section
so that if I edit /etc/init.d/snmpd (which is, after all, a conffile)
to include
echo "hello, snmpd!"
then that text gets passed to debconf. Yech.
This might be a debconf bug, a debhelper bug, or a net-snmp bug; I'm
not sure which. It doesn't sound to me like an adduser bug, although
fixing this minor adduser bug worked around it.
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