Message-ID: <19970611110444.61413@cistron.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:04:44 +0200
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg "setup" method prints spurious messages
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

When used with bash-2.0, the dpkg disk setup method prints spurious messages:

/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 16632 Broken pipe             find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2>/dev/null
     16633 Done                    | head -1
     16634 Done                    | grep . >/dev/null
Using `/pub/debian/stable/binary-i386' as main binary dir.
Using `/pub/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for main.
Using `/pub/debian/contrib/binary-i386' as contrib binary dir.
Using `/pub/debian/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for contrib.
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 16638 Broken pipe             find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2>/dev/null
     16639 Done                    | head -1
     16640 Done                    | grep . >/dev/null
Using `/pub/debian/non-free/binary-i386' as non-free binary dir.
Using `/pub/debian/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for non-free.

This is probably a bug in bash-2.0, but a fast way to fix it in the
setup shell script is like this:


--- methods/disk/setup.orig	Wed Jun 11 11:35:57 1997
+++ methods/disk/setup	Wed Jun 11 12:01:53 1997
@@ -429,12 +429,15 @@
 		echo "\`$2' does not exist."
 		return
 	fi
+	exec 3>&2 2>/dev/null
 	if ! find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print \
 		2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep . >/dev/null
+		exec 2>&3 3>&-
 	then
 		echo "\`$2' does not contain any *.deb packages.  Hmmpf."
 		return
 	fi
+	exec 2>&3 3>&-
 	echo "Using \`$2' as $1 binary dir."
 	this_binary="$2"
 }


It is possible that the other methods have a similar bug, but I can't
test this at the moment.

It would be nice to fix this in Debian-1.3.1

Mike.
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