Re: Bug in recent changes to builddeb

Randy Dunlap
2023-03-27T22:41:45Z

at least Cc linux-kbuild.

On 3/27/23 13:55, Ron Economos wrote:
> Looks like there's a bug in /scripts/package/builddeb. On lines 188, 197 and 198, the variable $version is used. However, it's not defined (removed with recent changes).
>
> This causes the headers to be put into /usr/src/linux-headers-. When the next version is attempted to be installed, the following error occurs.
>
> $ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4_6.3.0-rc4-2_riscv64.deb
> Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4.
> (Reading database ... 376925 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4_6.3.0-rc4-2_riscv64.deb ...
> Unpacking linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4 (6.3.0-rc4-2) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4_6.3.0-rc4-2_riscv64.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/src/linux-headers-/.config', which is also in package linux-headers-6.3.0-rc3 6.3.0-rc3-4
> dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  linux-headers-6.3.0-rc4_6.3.0-rc4-2_riscv64.deb
>

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~Randy