Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: important dpkg proceeds even if the preconfigure scripts do not successfully run.
For example, /tmp is locally mounted noexec to prevent abuse. After upward of a hundred errors like the below, dpkg carried through the rest of the install and completed without any indication that anything had gone wrong. If I had not been watching the console, I would not know why some packages are broken. Can't exec "/tmp/base-config.config.111481": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/IPC/Open3.pm line 165. open2: exec of /tmp/base-config.config.111481 configure 1.75 failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 44 base-config failed to preconfigure, with exit status 255 Can't exec "/tmp/passwd.config.111483": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8.2/IPC/Open3.pm line 165. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pinkbits 2.4.21mcg-1025-2 #1 Sat Oct 25 12:08:34 CDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.18 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
