I was experimenting using dash as /bin/sh and noticed that a lot of
packages were having errors in their install scriptlets.
popen passes commands to /bin/sh so we need to explicitly invoke bash,
which the scriptlets are written for. WOO!
Signed-off-by: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com>
---
lib/libalpm/trans.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/trans.c b/lib/libalpm/trans.c
index d1c0e93..5e63326 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/trans.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/trans.c
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ int _alpm_runscriptlet(const char *root, const char *installfn,
{
char scriptfn[PATH_MAX];
char cmdline[PATH_MAX];
+ char cmdargs[PATH_MAX];
char tmpdir[PATH_MAX];
char *scriptpath;
int clean_tmpdir = 0;
@@ -486,13 +487,16 @@ int _alpm_runscriptlet(const char *root, const char *installfn,
}
if(oldver) {
- snprintf(cmdline, PATH_MAX, ". %s; %s %s %s",
+ snprintf(cmdargs, PATH_MAX, "%s; %s %s %s",
scriptpath, script, ver, oldver);
} else {
- snprintf(cmdline, PATH_MAX, ". %s; %s %s",
+ snprintf(cmdargs, PATH_MAX, "%s; %s %s",
scriptpath, script, ver);
}
+ /* Explicitly run scriptlets in bash */
+ snprintf(cmdline, PATH_MAX, "/bin/bash -c 'source %s'", cmdargs);
+
retval = _alpm_run_chroot(root, cmdline);
cleanup:
--
1.6.3.3