Bug#762547: oss-compat: Upgrade to compat_2+deb7u1 fails during configure

[Andreas Sundstrom]

Package: oss-compat
Version: 2+deb7u1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 6.1

Dear Maintainer,
I just upgraded my machine and that included oss-compat.
During the dpkg configuration "phase" it failed.

Here's the output from the session:
(Reading database ... 271246 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libsnmp-base 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8 (using .../libsnmp-base_5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp-base ...
Preparing to replace libsnmp-dev 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8 (using .../libsnmp-dev_5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp-dev ...
Preparing to replace libsnmp-perl 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8 (using .../libsnmp-perl_5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp-perl ...
Preparing to replace libsnmp15 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8 (using .../libsnmp15_5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp15 ...
Preparing to replace snmp 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8 (using .../snmp_5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement snmp ...
Preparing to replace oss-compat 2 (using .../oss-compat_2+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement oss-compat ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libsnmp-base (5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1) ...
Setting up libsnmp15 (5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1) ...
Setting up libsnmp-perl (5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1) ...
Setting up libsnmp-dev (5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1) ...
Setting up snmp (5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1) ...
Setting up oss-compat (2+deb7u1) ...
cp: missing destination file operand after `/lib/oss-compat/linux'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing oss-compat (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oss-compat
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up oss-compat (2+deb7u1) ...
cp: missing destination file operand after `/lib/oss-compat/linux'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing oss-compat (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oss-compat


My guess is that the problem is in:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/oss-compat.postinst

On line 36:
[ -f ${curconffile} ] && [ "$(md5sum ${curconffile} | cut -d\  -f1)" = "88222606b0a3ba8b0825c5000c754e6f" ] && cp /lib/oss-compat/linux ${conffile}

${conffile} is not mentioned in any other places in that script, so if it's not being set somewhere else that would be the reason for the cp command to fail.

I have not yet tried to fix the issue but I suspect that a purge/re-install would to the trick..


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages oss-compat depends on:
ii  kmod  9-3

oss-compat recommends no packages.

oss-compat suggests no packages.

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