Package: watchdog Version: 5.8-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Steps to reproduce: 1) upgrade watchdog from 5.7-4 to 5.8-1
Expected results: 1) Setting up watchdog (5.8-1) ... Actual results: 1) Setting up watchdog (5.8-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/watchdog.postinst: 92: MAKEDEV: not found More info: 1) The check if [ -x `which MAKEDEV` ]; then in /var/lib/dpkg/info/watchdog.postinst does not seem to work: li...@ginger:~$ which MAKEDEV li...@ginger:~$ if [ -x `which MAKEDEV` ]; then echo FOUND; fi FOUND li...@ginger:~$ if [ -x "`which MAKEDEV`" ]; then echo FOUND; fi I suggest the attached patch.
>From 0d6d7678104a77793aca9a0c8460d5691d0077ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:13:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix check for MAKEDEV. --- debian/postinst | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst index 0bb5289..f6b9e17 100644 --- a/debian/postinst +++ b/debian/postinst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ if [ "$1" = configure ] then . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule - if [ -x `which MAKEDEV` ]; then + if [ -x "`which MAKEDEV`" ]; then # do we have to create the device? if [ ! -c /dev/watchdog ] then -- 1.7.0.4
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: armel (armv4tl) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-GTA02_lindi2-andy-tracking-mokodev Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages watchdog depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 154-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo watchdog recommends no packages. watchdog suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/watchdog.conf changed: file = /etc/fstab max-load-1 = 24 max-load-5 = 18 max-load-15 = 12 watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog realtime = yes priority = 1 watchdog-timeout = 42 -- debconf information: watchdog/run: true watchdog/module: none watchdog/restart: false
