Re: Bug in recent changes to builddeb

Randy Dunlap
2023-03-27T22:44:12Z

On 3/27/23 15:41, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> at least Cc linux-kbuild.
>

or just see https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/3351f907cfd0b5d8372e858a8ec9065cc2bd91df.1679434718.git.kevin@kevinlocke.name/

and use a later git tree.

I.e., it's fixed now.

> 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