Your message dated Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:47:03 +0000 with message-id <e1lcz5l-0001kx...@ries.debian.org> and subject line Bug#514780: fixed in apticron 1.1.28 has caused the Debian Bug report #514780, regarding apticron: changes to cron.d file are disregarded or cause postinst to fail to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apticron Version: 1.1.27 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.3: local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade The postinst script generates errors when it greps through my modified /etc/cron.d/apticron file. All I did was to comment out the cron entry like below, as I prefer to run a more complicated script from /etc/cron.daily/apticron: # cron entry for apticron #57 22 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron I don't think this is unreasonable behavior, as the postinst script should be able to handle such changes to a config file. I added "set -x" to the postinst to get this debug output to diagnose the problem: $ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up apticron (1.1.27) ... + case "$1" in + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/apticron.postinst configure 1.1.25 + case "$1" in + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' 1 ']' ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ exec ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec ++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1 ++ export DEBCONF_REDIR + db_get apticron/notification + _db_cmd 'GET apticron/notification' + IFS=' ' + printf '%s\n' 'GET apticron/notification' + IFS=' ' + read -r _db_internal_line + RET=root + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in + return 0 + EMAIL=root + '[' '!' -d /etc/apticron/ ']' ++ mktemp -t apticron.conf.XXXXXXXXXX + tmpfile=/tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj + cat + ucf --debconf-ok --three-way /tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj /etc/apticron/apticron.conf + rm -f /tmp/apticron.conf.DzuXiomPWj + '[' -f /etc/cron.d/apticron ']' ++ grep -v '^[[:space:]]*\(\#\|$\)' /etc/cron.d/apticron ++ read min hour null + time= dpkg: error processing apticron (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apticron In this case, the grep statement is returning nothing, which I think causes the read to generate the error. You probably need to do some error checking in the postinst, such as to grep -q first to make sure there is some ouput from it. Thanks, Cameron -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apticron depends on: ii apt 0.7.20.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages apticron recommends: ii apt-listchanges 2.83 package change history notificatio ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too apticron suggests no packages. -- debconf information: apticron/notification: root
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--- Begin Message ---Source: apticron Source-Version: 1.1.28 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of apticron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: apticron_1.1.28.dsc to pool/main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.28.dsc apticron_1.1.28.tar.gz to pool/main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.28.tar.gz apticron_1.1.28_all.deb to pool/main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.28_all.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 514...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <ti...@debian-ba.org> (supplier of updated apticron package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:31:49 -0500 Source: apticron Binary: apticron Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.28 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <ti...@debian-ba.org> Changed-By: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <ti...@debian-ba.org> Description: apticron - simple tool to mail about pending package updates Closes: 514780 Changes: apticron (1.1.28) unstable; urgency=low . * debian/postinst: + avoid read error when it receives a null value from grep on creating the cronjob file. Thanks to Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #514780) Checksums-Sha1: bfabcd97512d75c0b870b2b9e9dddc2ffc867340 973 apticron_1.1.28.dsc f4a2b841cc59130573b42f7c26fc7583f7dab58c 15710 apticron_1.1.28.tar.gz b0834b70cd2dfe968a44c9f262079cf3758ea88d 14936 apticron_1.1.28_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: 7eda270a4bc2f6f61462f71a2982b4f6ad290a48c03a7abb43e1d5cc4c0d45e8 973 apticron_1.1.28.dsc 89f49ed962ceca024f1ab05dc1fc626ac8fea7d5936ddb65cdb5b36bc1448ce9 15710 apticron_1.1.28.tar.gz 449a7407447c199d7bcb9091e0865bff11fdfa1004482d1ffb2714da47e584ca 14936 apticron_1.1.28_all.deb Files: 3d18c4ba3cb54ba6c4f68884adc0421e 973 admin extra apticron_1.1.28.dsc 78c646e4fca35e672d794d1843f184ad 15710 admin extra apticron_1.1.28.tar.gz aa2c1dbe6793eae2db8dfe92ef619b09 14936 admin extra apticron_1.1.28_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmmKhQACgkQaQ1iFKUE/spP0gCeOurA+Krbddlwn1WMSkK6ucSb av4AnieE5jbozdJTh5P56okN7blTO3ak =kq5f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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