Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi!
dpkg has switched to spawn a subshell for conffile handling since 1.15.6, with the removal of the DPKG_NO_TSTP envvar support. Here's a patch getting rid of such mentioned in apt. Althought I'm not sure how far back you want to support dpkg versions. Thanks, Guillem
From 0aadeb13820a6e87ec4924d6d3e37aa491ff51b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:52:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Do not set unhonored DPKG_NO_TSTP variable for dpkg Support for that variable was removed in dpkg in 1.15.6, in commit 6f037003e8b96878b485efb7cbd1f846e3bf4e97. --- apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc | 3 --- doc/dpkg-tech.dbk | 10 +--------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc index 04a13a8..c547792 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc @@ -1509,9 +1509,6 @@ bool pkgDPkgPM::GoNoABIBreak(APT::Progress::PackageManager *progress) _exit(100); } - /* No Job Control Stop Env is a magic dpkg var that prevents it - from using sigstop */ - putenv((char *)"DPKG_NO_TSTP=yes"); execvp(Args[0], (char**) &Args[0]); cerr << "Could not exec dpkg!" << endl; _exit(100); diff --git a/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk b/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk index 2584cf6..f95716c 100644 --- a/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk +++ b/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk @@ -404,15 +404,7 @@ As yet unwritten. You can refer to the other manuals for now. See <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> -DPKG_NO_TSTP - if set to a non-null value, this variable causes dpkg to run a -child shell process instead of sending itself a SIGTSTP, when the user selects -to background the dpkg process when it asks about conffiles. -</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para> -SHELL - used to determine which shell to run in the case when DPKG_NO_TSTP -is set. +SHELL - used to determine which shell to run. </para> </listitem> <listitem> -- 2.1.1.391.g7a54a76
