[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#596284: sysvinit: Doesn't install with debootstrap --variant=fakechroot

[Roger Leigh]

tags 596284 + pending
thanks

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 07:31:25PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> severity 596284 important
> tag 596284 patch
> thanks
> 
> i took a look at this.  the issue is that even though initctl is now
> in /run, the postinst continues to try to create a symlink for the old
> initctl in /dev.  attached is a patch that detects the situation when
> there isn't an old initcl and avoids the symlink attempt.  see
> attached.

Hi Mike,

Many thanks for the patch; I've applied it to our git repo for the
next upload.


Thanks,
Roger

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