Re: [PATCH 1/1] bugfix: isar-exclude-docs delete man folders but some packages expect that folders

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:57:11 +0200
schrieb Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> you could simply not install "isar-exclude-docs", it is kind of a hack
> which removes files that are very likely not needed. You found a case
> where one file is needed after all.
> 
> Whatever we do we have to keep the postinst and the
> /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf.d/ snippet in sync. So you can not decide to keep
> directories in one approach and drop them with the other.
> 
> The snippet is a one-to-one copy from ubuntu Docker containers, would
> not want to fork it. So if we have to change it, we should also report
> that to ubuntu.
> 
> Long story short, i think it will be a rather trivial fix in the
> postinst of that java package. That very java package might show the
> same problem in a ubuntu container ... which would be a nice repro to
> motivate the maintainer to take a patch which deals with a file
> missing ... that in a plain debian would never be missing.

Here is the related ubuntu code, or better a previous "collarboration
issue" between them and isar.

https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-ubuntu-core/issues/216

Henning

> So i would say someone has to open an issue on salsa, maybe an MR.
> Mention isar-exclude-docs and ubuntu docker images as examples where
> the files and folders can be missing.
> 
> In the meantime you can not install isar-exlcude-docs, or install the
> java package before it, or patch that postinst locally by rebuilding
> the java package, or write a dummy package that does an "mkdir" in
> postinst and install it after exclude and before java ... i think just
> installing the docs is the easiest and will not cost you too much
> space.
> 
> Henning
> 
> Am Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:36:22 +0200
> schrieb "Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > bugfix: isar-exclude-docs delete man folders but some packages
> > expect that folders.
> > solution: adopts the same approach used for the doc folder.
> > 
> > https://github.com/robang74/isar/commit/c656e6df63aa76701e34d7ee3f99c81e96312b9d
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/files/postinst
> > b/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/files/postinst
> > index d34c04e..581cdc1 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/files/postinst
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-support/isar-exclude-docs/files/postinst
> > @@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
> >  # time and do not need to be "the first" package
> >  # what we delete needs to be in sync with the dpkg configuration we
> > ship
> > 
> > -rm -rf /usr/share/man/*
> > +find /usr/share/man/ -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
> >  find /usr/share/doc/ -type f ! -name "copyright" ! -name
> > "changelog.*" -exec rm -rf {} \;
> > 
> > Here you are the error during the configuration of the package:
> > 
> > Setting up openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 (11.0.16+8-1~deb11u1) ...
> > update-alternatives: using
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java
> > (java) in auto mode update-alternatives: error: error creating
> > symbolic link '/usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz.dpkg-tmp': No such file
> > or directory dpkg: error processing package
> > openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 (--configure): installed
> > openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 package post-installation script
> > subprocess returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems
> > prevent configuration of openjdk-11-jre:amd64: openjdk-11-jre:amd64
> > depends on openjdk-11-jre-headless (= 11.0.16+8-1~deb11u1); however:
> >   Package openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 is not configured yet.
> > 
> > Cheers, R-
> >   
>