Comment 5 for bug 7379

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Hi,

Andreas Schockenhoff pointed out in a posting to the fai mailinglist, that
this bug is related to not using the woody version of sed.
(http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai/20040810.210801/165312).
Instead of sed 3, sed 4 from backports was installed, when this bug
occured.

# dpkg -l sed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii sed 4.0.9-2.backports.or The GNU sed stream editor

The following patch should correct the problem and decides on the sed
version number, which sed commands to use:

=== cut ===
- --- woody.orig Mon Aug 9 21:14:07 2004
+++ woody Wed Aug 18 11:03:35 2004
@@ -112,7 +112,12 @@
         local ver="$(
             ar -p "$TARGET/$deb" control.tar.gz | zcat |
                 tar -O -xf - control ./control 2>/dev/null |
- - sed -ne 's/^Version: *//Ip' | head -n 1
+ if [ `sed --version | head -1 | awk '{ print $4}' | cut -d. -f1` -gt 3 ] ; then
+ sed -ne 's/^Version: *//p' | head -n 1
+ else
+ sed -ne 's/^Version: *//Ip' | head -n 1
+ fi
+
         )"

         mkdir -p "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/info"
=== cut ===

MfG Holger Mense

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Holger Mense
Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik
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