[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#387410: bluez-utils: fails on upgrade

[Eddy Petrişor]

On 14/09/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:14:11PM +0300, Eddy =?UTF-8?Q?Petri=C5=9For ?= wrote:
> > [snip]
> >         # use MAKEDEV instead of the original bluez script below as
> > per policy 10.6
> >         echo "Creating device nodes ..."
> >        cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV bluetooth
> >
> >         if [ -r /etc/bluetooth/pin ]; then
> >             echo "Converting default outgoing PIN to default passkey:"
> > [snip]
>
> > Probably something like this could be the fix (for sarge upgrade path):
>
> > --- bluez-utils.postinst.orig   2006-09-11 08:26:53.000000000 +0300
> > +++ bluez-utils.postinst        2006-09-14 12:13:06.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
>
> >         # use MAKEDEV instead of the original bluez script below as
> > per policy 10.6
> >         echo "Creating device nodes ..."
> > -        cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV bluetooth
> > +       [ -e /dev/MAKEDEV ] && cd /dev
> > +        [ -e /sbin/MAKDEV ] && cd /sbin
> > +       ./MAKEDEV bluetooth
> >
> >         if [ -r /etc/bluetooth/pin ]; then
> >             echo "Converting default outgoing PIN to default passkey:"
>
> Absolutely not, MAKEDEV acts on the current directory by design.  You don't
> want device files added to /sbin.
>
> You also misspelled MAKEDEV in the patch, so it wouldn't do anything anyway.

oops :-)

> Do you have the makedev package installed on your system?  AFAICS, the bug
> here is that bluez-utils depends on makedev *or* udev, but calls MAKEDEV
> unconditionally in the postinst.  All of my udev-using symbols do have
> /dev/MAKEDEV as a symlink to /sbin/MAKEDEV, so I don't see any other reason
> this would fail -- at least, not that it would be a bug in bluez-utils.

So I guess the idea would be something like:

if [ -f /dev/MAKEDEV ] || [ -f /sbin/MAKEDEV ] ; then
   PATH=${PATH}:/sbin:. && cd /dev && MAKEDEV bluetooth
fi

In order to prevent the case where makedev is not installed/installed
in sbin/installed in /dev / not needed.


This is the current status:

merci bugs # ls /dev/M*
ls: /dev/M*: No such file or directory
merci bugs # LANG=C apt-cache policy makedev
makedev:
  Installed: 2.3.1-83
  Candidate: 2.3.1-83
  Version table:
     3.3.8.2-0 0
        100 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/main Packages
 *** 2.3.1-83 0
        900 http://ftp.ro.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.3.1-82 0
        900 http://snapshot.debian.net unstable/main Packages
merci bugs # LANG=C apt-cache policy udev
udev:
  Installed: 0.100-1
  Candidate: 0.100-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.100-1 0
        900 http://ftp.ro.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.098-2 0
        900 http://snapshot.debian.net unstable/main Packages

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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