Re: Patch for DPKG-packaging

Thanks, Werner.  Isn't there an option that always provides a fixed  
output?  I remember discussion about providing that option on the  
command line instead...

On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Morten Werner Forsbring wrote:
> 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
>  number
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