Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.
Trent W. Buck
trentbuck at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 02:33:28 UTC 2010
Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.196
Severity: normal
pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from
starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies. This
works well for sysvinit packages.
However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons use
upstart instead of sysvinit. Thus, they ignore policy-rc.d, try (and
fail) to start, further causing the postinst, dpkg, satisfybuildepends
and ultimately the entire pdebuild to fail.
According to CJ Watson of #ubuntu-devel, this can be done by diverting
/sbin/initctl and substituting a stub. An example of this can be seen
in debootstrap's "gutsy" script (excerpt below). Please add something
similar, I guess to /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-modules:mountproc.
mv "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon" "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL"
echo \
"#!/bin/sh
echo
echo \"Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
if [ -x "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" ]; then
mv "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" "$TARGET/sbin/initctl.REAL"
echo \
"#!/bin/sh
echo
echo \"Warning: Fake initctl called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
fi
[0] In theory this was an issue with earlier Ubuntu releases, but it
seems to be far more prevalent in Lucid.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-23-openvz (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.5 Bootstrap a Debian system
ii coreutils 8.4-1 GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii debootstrap 1.0.20 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii wget 1.12-1.1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii devscripts 2.10.61 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment
ii sudo 1.7.2p1-1 Provide limited super user privile
Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn cowdancer <none> (no description available)
pn gdebi-core <none> (no description available)
pn pbuilder-uml <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
pbuilder/rewrite: false
* pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian
* pbuilder/nomirror:
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