[Bug 1376590] Re: dpkg postinst uses awk before it exists during bootstrap

[Adam Conrad]

Actually, wait.  I was about to fix this, since it's trivial, but does
cdebootstrap suffer from the same "only one dist" issue that debootstrap
does?  If so, a fixed postinst in trusty-updates will do you no good.

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) => Adam Conrad (adconrad)

** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu Utopic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  dpkg postinst uses awk before it exists during bootstrap

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in dpkg source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in dpkg source package in Utopic:
  New

Bug description:
  O: Setting up dpkg (1.17.5ubuntu5.3) ...
  P: Configuring package dpkg
  D: Updating dpkg to status 3
  O: dpkg: dpkg: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
  O:  dpkg depends on libbz2-1.0; however:
  O:   Package libbz2-1.0 is not installed.
  O:  dpkg depends on libc6 (>= 2.14); however:
  O:   Package libc6 is not installed.
  O:  dpkg depends on liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614); however:
  O:   Package liblzma5 is not installed.
  O:  dpkg depends on libselinux1 (>= 2.1.0); however:
  O:   Package libselinux1 is not installed.
  O:  dpkg depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4); however:
  O:   Package zlib1g is not installed.
  O:  dpkg depends on tar (>= 1.23); however:
  O:   Package tar is not installed.
  O: 
  O: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.postinst: 79: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.postinst: awk: not found
  O: dpkg: error processing package dpkg (--install):
  O:  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
  O: Errors were encountered while processing:
  O:  dpkg
  D: Status: 256
  E: Internal error: install

  
  The problem is that awk is a symlink to either mawk or gawk that is setup in their postinst script. But during bootstrap none of them have run yet so the link does not exist.

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