Package: cfengine2
Version: 2.2.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch


Debug output from cfengine failure is as follows:
cfpopen(LANG=C /usr/bin/apt-cache policy resolvconf)
cfpclose(pp)
cfpopen - Waiting for process 7960
Something impossible happened... ('grep' exited abnormally).

Problem is traced to a Debian specific patch which added LANG=C to
command. As configure LANG=C fails to run. The missing part of the
Debian patch is also attached.

Workaround is provide a LANG=C command to run $* in the path. Example
shell program is attached.

*** package.c.patch
--- package.c.broken  2008-06-06 23:10:37.000000000 -0400
+++ package.c  2008-06-06 23:09:44.000000000 -0400
@@(protected) @@
/* check what version is installed on the system (if any) */
snprintf (VBUFF, CF_BUFSIZE, "LANG=C /usr/bin/apt-cache policy %s", package);

-if ((pp = cfpopen (VBUFF, "r")) == NULL)
+if ((pp = cfpopen_sh (VBUFF, "r")) == NULL)
  {
  Verbose ("Could not execute APT-command (apt-cache policy).\n");
  return 0;

*** LANG=C
#!/bin/sh

LANG=C $*
exit $?

# EOF


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cfengine2 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.20        Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils        2.28.2-0ubuntu1  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6            2.7-10ubuntu3   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.6          4.6.21-6ubuntu1  Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii libssl0.9.8        0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.1 SSL shared libraries
ii perl             5.8.8-12       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

cfengine2 recommends no packages.

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