Your message dated Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:02:06 +0000
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and subject line Bug#503080: fixed in watchdog 5.4-7
has caused the Debian Bug report #503080,
regarding watchdog.postinst: line 18: /sbin/MAKEDEV: No such file or directory
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503080: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503080
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Package: watchdog
Version: 5.4-6
Severity: serious
Michael,
watchdog fails to install with an error if one doesn't have makedev installed.
# apt-get install watchdog
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
watchdog
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 69.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 283kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org sid/main watchdog 5.4-6 [69.3kB]
Fetched 69.3kB in 4s (13.9kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package watchdog.
(Reading database ... 174773 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking watchdog (from .../watchdog_5.4-6_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up watchdog (5.4-6) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/watchdog.postinst: line 18: /sbin/MAKEDEV: No such file or
directory
The patch should do something like:
if [ -x /dev/MAKEDEV ]; then
echo "creating foo devices..."
/dev/MAKEDEV foo
fi
Mark
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages watchdog depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii udev 0.125-7 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
watchdog recommends no packages.
watchdog suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
watchdog/module: none
watchdog/run: true
watchdog/restart: false
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: watchdog
Source-Version: 5.4-7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
watchdog, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
watchdog_5.4-7.diff.gz
to pool/main/w/watchdog/watchdog_5.4-7.diff.gz
watchdog_5.4-7.dsc
to pool/main/w/watchdog/watchdog_5.4-7.dsc
watchdog_5.4-7_i386.deb
to pool/main/w/watchdog/watchdog_5.4-7_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated watchdog package)
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:38:30 +0200
Source: watchdog
Binary: watchdog
Architecture: source i386
Version: 5.4-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
watchdog - A software watchdog
Closes: 503080
Changes:
watchdog (5.4-7) unstable; urgency=low
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* Check whether /sbin/MAKEDEV exists before calling it, closes: #503080
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