Argus 3.0.8 Debian packages postinst error

[John Gerth]

Dear 7j21g9+ouka5g

Hmmmm....this looks like my fault as I provided the experimental debian packaging code for 3.0.8 and
I developed it all using Ubuntu packaging which is not pure Debian and although I don't get the
error you do, I think I see where it is.

In packaging up the /etc/init.d startup scripts, I used the argus script as the model for both
radium and rasplit and forgot to change the "Provides:" line in the header so they are also
claiming to provide argus.   I'm puzzled why Ubuntu doesn't complain about this, but I am not
an expert by any means in the Debian lineage so it's not surprising.

If the above is correct, then you could trying changing the "Provides:" line
in  pkg/ubuntu/init.d/radium and rasplit to the corresponding names
and then rebuild the clients package


John Gerth      gerth at graphics.stanford.edu
On 8/22/14, 10:21 AM, 7j21g9+ouka5g at guerrillamail.com wrote:
> I am using Debian 7.6 on amd64 and am trying to install my newly built packages for Argus Server and Clients. I installed the various build tools and pre-reqs:
> 
> # apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev devscripts remake libncurses5-dev dpatch libreadline-dev libmysqlclient-dev libgeoip-dev libpcre3-dev
> # apt-get build-dep argus
> 
> I downloaded and unpacked both the latest tars:
> http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-3.0.8.tar.gz
> http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-clients-3.0.8.tar.gz
> 
> In each directory, I created the packages:
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
> 
> The Server seemed to be OK, but then with the client...
> 
> # dpkg -i argus-clients_3.0.8-1ppa1_amd64.deb
> 
> Which resulted in:
> Selecting previously unselected package argus.
> (Reading database ... 39188 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking argus (from argus_3.0.8-1ppa1_amd64.deb) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package argus-clients.
> Unpacking argus-clients (from argus-clients_3.0.8-1ppa1_amd64.deb) ...
> Setting up argus (3.0.8-1ppa1) ...
> argus[5565]: 22 Aug 14 17:48:34.935772 started
> Setting up argus-clients (3.0.8-1ppa1) ...
> insserv: script radium: service argus already provided!
> insserv: exiting now!
> update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
> dpkg: error processing argus-clients (--install):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  argus-clients
> root at dev:/home/sysadmin# 
> 
> I have looked at the argus-clients' debian/postinst script and I don't know what is wrong.
> 
> Any idea where I have gone wrong?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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