On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:58:42PM +0000, Tony Green wrote: > I wonder if anybody can shed any light on a strange (and annoying) problem > I'm > having persuading dpkg to install init scripts for a package. > > I have an init script in the right place in my development tree > (~/httpd-2.2.8/debian/init.d), hd_installinit is un-commented in > ~/httpd-2.2.8/debian/rules and when I manually un-pick the .deb file, > data.tar.gz correctly contains ./etc/init.d/httpd. > > But... when I actually install the package, I end up without an init file. > > The problem appears to be somewhere in the configuration phase, as if I > unpack > the package, I see /etc/init.d/httpd.dpkg-new but when I then configure the > package, it disappears. Running with debug and some tracing suggests that > it's being deleted by whatever process runs just before my postinst script is > called.
Have you solved this problem already? If not, perhaps this might be relevant: http://www.davidpashley.com/blog/2008/02/05#confmiss > This is happening with the latest version of the development environment, but > reverting to the OS2007 version, it's also happening there. But the fact that > I DID have an init script in place suggests I've somehow managed to get this > to work at some stage in my early development work (I forgot to include > deletion in the postrm script, so it must have been left there by an earlier > attempt.) It does sound like you stumbled on the exact same feature that's described in the blog post. HTH, Marius Gedminas -- "While preceding your entrance with a grenade is a good tactic in Quake, it can lead to problems if attempted at work." -- C Hacking
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