Debian Bug report logs - #216949
dpkg: Add a way to run shell maintscript with -x

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: How do you debug a postinst problem

Date: 21 Oct 2003 22:23:14 +0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: wishlist

There does not seem to be any way to find out what the problem is when
dpkg reports that ``the postinstallation script returned an error code
of 1''.  This is not a theoretical issue -- I've been unable to provide
useful report for bug 216944.

I suggest providing an option to run all shell scripts with -x.  Of
course, you'll need to check whether they are actually #!/bin/sh or
#!/bin/bash scripts.

Thanks,

                                        Juliusz Chroboczek

Message #10 received at 216949@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>

To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>, 216949@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#216949: How do you debug a postinst problem

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:02:21 +0100

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:23:14PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> There does not seem to be any way to find out what the problem is when
> dpkg reports that ``the postinstallation script returned an error code
> of 1''.  This is not a theoretical issue -- I've been unable to provide
> useful report for bug 216944.

postinst is easy. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.postinst and then run it.

preinst is the tricky one, you have to apply dpkg-deb to unpack the
thing first.

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