[Pkg-varnish-devel] Bug#596373: varnish postinst script fails on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Marc Fournier]

Package: varnish
Version: 2.1.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

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The postinst script copies /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid to /etc/varnish/secret,
but this proc entry isn't available on GNU/kFreeBSD:

# dpkg --configure varnish
Setting up varnish (2.1.2-1) ...
install: cannot stat `/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing varnish (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 varnish

Here is a suggestion which generates a random secret using tools found in
coreutils, and without relying on /proc entries:


--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/varnish.postinst.orig	2010-09-10 21:16:00.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/varnish.postinst	2010-09-10 21:27:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@
 
 varnish_create_secret() {
 	if ! [ -f "${secret_file}" ]; then
-		install -m 0600 /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid "${secret_file}"
+		touch "${secret_file}" && \
+		chmod 0600 "${secret_file}" && \
+		dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=128 2>/dev/null | tr -dc "A-Za-z0-9" > "${secret_file}"
 	fi
 }
 

(tested and works for me).

Cheers,
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages varnish depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112          add and remove users and groups
ii  gcc                       4:4.4.4-2      The GNU C compiler
ii  libc0.1                   2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libc0.1-dev [libc6-dev]   2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libvarnish1               2.1.2-1        shared libraries for Varnish

varnish recommends no packages.

varnish suggests no packages.

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