Patch for DPKG-packaging

Morten Werner Forsbring <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

attached is a patch for the DPKG-packaging that fixes a bug when
locale is set to something with non-English output.


- Werner


diff -ruN cfengine-2.2.5-old/src/package.c
cfengine-2.2.5/src/package.c
--- cfengine-2.2.5-old/src/package.c    2008-03-21 08:50:17.000000000 +0100
+++ cfengine-2.2.5/src/package.c        2008-03-26 23:19:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -998,8 +998,8 @@
 Verbose ("Package: %s\n",package);
 
 /* check that the package exists in the package database */
-snprintf (VBUFF, CF_BUFSIZE, "/usr/bin/apt-cache policy %s 2>&1 | grep -v " \
-          "\"W: Unable to locate package \"", package);
+snprintf (VBUFF, CF_BUFSIZE, "LANG=C /usr/bin/apt-cache policy %s 2>&1 | " \
+          "grep -v \"W: Unable to locate package \"", package);
 
 if ((pp = cfpopen_sh(VBUFF, "r")) == NULL)
    {
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@
    }
 
 /* check what version is installed on the system (if any) */
-snprintf (VBUFF, CF_BUFSIZE, "/usr/bin/apt-cache policy %s", package);
+snprintf (VBUFF, CF_BUFSIZE, "LANG=C /usr/bin/apt-cache policy %s", package);
 
 /*
  * HvB: cfopen to cfopen_sh, fix bug for packages without version
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