Comment 15 for bug 430224

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Evan Broder (broder) wrote : Re: [Bug 430224] Re: misc: packages cannot be upgraded in a chroot

If you're running a chroot or some other environment where you never
want upstart jobs to run, you shouldn't un-divert the initctl.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Erick Brunzell <email address hidden> wrote:
> I started a discussion regarding this at Ubuntu Forums in Lucid testing:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1326721
>
> Already one question I can't answer.  Following:
>
> dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
> ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
>
> and completing the upgrade or other procedure, should a person not:
>
> rm /sbin/initctl
> dpkg-divert --local --remove /sbin/initctl
>
> before exiting the chroot?
>
> This is quite important to me because I try to help as much as possible
> at Absolute Beginners Talk in the forums and every failed attempt at
> helping someone holds the potential of losing a new Ubuntu user.
>
> That and I don't like to fail. It's one of those character flaws.
>
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> misc: packages cannot be upgraded in a chroot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430224
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