Bug#905732: kernel-package: fails to create debian directory (/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator)

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Package: kernel-package
Version: 13.018+nmu1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

I tried to make-kpkg with the latest linux-4.18-rc8

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

.../linux-4.18-rc8$ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot -j 32 --initrd kernel_image --verbose

* What was the outcome of this action?

The build failed after a couple of seconds, with errors from /bin/sh along the way.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

The .deb kernel package to have been built.

Full log:

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claude@eiskaffee:~/opt/src/linux/linux-4.18-rc8$ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot -j 32 --initrd kernel_image --verbose
exec make kpkg_version=13.018+nmu1 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian V=1 INITRD=YES ROOT_CMD=fakeroot
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -gt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
====== making target debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian [new prereqs: ]======
This is kernel package version 13.018+nmu1.
test -d debian || mkdir debian
test ! -e stamp-building || rm -f stamp-building
install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules
for file in ChangeLog Control Control.bin86 config templates.in rules; do \
cp -f /usr/share/kernel-package/$file ./debian/; \
done
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/kernel-package/ChangeLog': No such file or directory
for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do \
cp -af /usr/share/kernel-package/$dir ./debian/; \
done
test -f debian/control || sed -e 's/=V/../g' \
-e 's/=D/..-10.00.Custom/g' -e 's/=A/amd64/g' \
-e 's/=SA//g' \
-e 's/=I//g' \
-e 's/=CV/./g' \
-e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unk...@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g' \
-e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \
-e 's/=R/initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool,/g' /usr/share/kernel-package/Control > debian/control
test -f debian/changelog || sed -e 's/=V/../g' \
-e 's/=D/..-10.00.Custom/g' -e 's/=A/amd64/g' \
-e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=B/x86_64/g' \
-e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer <unk...@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g' \
/usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog
chmod 0644 debian/control debian/changelog
test -d ./debian/stamp || mkdir debian/stamp
make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/claude/opt/src/linux/linux-4.18-rc8'
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '..-10.00.Custom' is invalid: version number does not start with digit
LINE: linux-source-.. (..-10.00.Custom) unstable; urgency=low
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '..-10.00.Custom' is invalid: version number does not start with digit
LINE: linux-source-.. (..-10.00.Custom) unstable; urgency=low
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '..-10.00.Custom' is invalid: version number does not start with digit
LINE: linux-source-.. (..-10.00.Custom) unstable; urgency=low
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '..-10.00.Custom' is invalid: version number does not start with digit
LINE: linux-source-.. (..-10.00.Custom) unstable; urgency=low
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '..-10.00.Custom' is invalid: version number does not start with digit
LINE: linux-source-.. (..-10.00.Custom) unstable; urgency=low
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -gt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -gt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -ge: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
/bin/sh: 1: [: -eq: unexpected operator
====== making target debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf [new prereqs: ]======
make ARCH=x86_64 \
oldconfig;
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/claude/opt/src/linux/linux-4.18-rc8'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'oldconfig'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/claude/opt/src/linux/linux-4.18-rc8'
make[1]: *** [debian/ruleset/targets/common.mk:199: debian/stamp/conf/kernel-conf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/claude/opt/src/linux/linux-4.18-rc8'
make: *** [/usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk:106: debian/stamp/conf/minimal_debian] Error 2
Failed to create a ./debian directory: at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 970.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-rc7 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii bc 1.07.1-2+b1
ii binutils 2.31.1-2
ii build-essential 12.5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii file 1:5.33-3
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1
ii kmod 25-1
ii po-debconf 1.0.20
ii xmlto 0.0.28-2
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.12+dfsg-6
ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-3.3
ii kernel-common 13.018+nmu1
pn uboot-mkimage <none>

Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii libncurses-dev 6.1+20180714-1
pn linux-source <none>

-- no debconf information

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

With /bin/sh -> dash:

On 08/08/18 19:37, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> /bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
> /bin/sh: 1: [: -gt: unexpected operator
> /bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator

With /bin/sh -> bash:

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/bin/sh: line 0: [: -lt: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -gt: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -lt: unary operator expected
--8<--

So it isn't a simple bashism.

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

On 08/08/18 19:37, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> .../linux-4.18-rc8$ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot -j 32 --initrd kernel_image --verbose
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> The build failed after a couple of seconds, with errors from /bin/sh along the way.
>
>

Worked (albeit slowly) without  -j 32.  To be precise, this worked:

.../linux-4.18-rc8$ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot --initrd kernel_image

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

On 11/08/18 18:43, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> Worked (albeit slowly) without  -j 32.  To be precise, this worked:

I think this is an issue with using an old .config and not updating it
properly with new variables defined in the new kernel.

Seems if I go through the make oldconfig stuff (invoked by make-kpkg)
once successfully, with the build failing after that with the can't
crate debian directory, then subsequently trying make-kpkg again does
work with -j 32