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checkinstall package

checkinstall fails due to "which dpkg" multiple results

Bug #4423 reported by Mark Lord on 2005-11-13

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	checkinstall (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #487965
	checkinstall (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	MOTU

Bug Description

checkinstall fails to run if the user has their own version/alias for "which".

To fix this, all calls to "which" in checkinstall should use the full pathname prefix, eg. /bin/which

Cheers

Related branches

lp://staging/ubuntu/karmic/checkinstall

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2005-11-15

Changed in checkinstall:
assignee:	nobody → motu

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2006-02-18: Patch for which -> /usr/bin/which

Patch for which -> /usr/bin/which Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

/usr/bin/which is the which provided by debianutils 2.15.2, and is the which used by checkinstall patched with the attached patch.

Emmet Hikory (persia) on 2006-03-04

Changed in checkinstall:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Steve Kowalik (stevenk) wrote on 2006-04-22:

Patch applied and uploaded.

Changed in checkinstall:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Albin Tonnerre (lutin) wrote on 2007-08-23:

checkinstall (1.6.1-4ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - Use /usr/bin/which instead of which. (LP: #4423)
    - add make to Depends, checkinstall doesn't work without it. (LP: #3142)
    - Modify Maintainer value to match Debian-Maintainer-Field Spec
  * Debian version fixes LP: #115107

-- Albin Tonnerre <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:59:23 +0200

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Albin Tonnerre (lutin) wrote on 2007-11-18:

checkinstall (1.6.1-5ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

checkinstall (1.6.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix typo: striping -> stripping.
   (Closes: #447776)
  * Fix FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64.
   (Closes: #451111)
  * Move manpage to section 8 and note that checkinstall must be run as root.
   (Closes: #448533)

-- Albin Tonnerre <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:05:51 +0100

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-09-07