From 04ea46d07bfd56d76e3405e0b279391b148a9999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphaël Hertzog <raphael@offensive-security.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:54:54 +0100
Subject: binary_package-lists: avoid messing with dpkg's status file

Instead of emptying the file temporarily, just tell APT to use /dev/null
instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status. Relates to #944983
---
 scripts/build/binary_package-lists | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'scripts/build/binary_package-lists')

diff --git a/scripts/build/binary_package-lists b/scripts/build/binary_package-lists
index a13491ee3..946313b08 100755
--- a/scripts/build/binary_package-lists
+++ b/scripts/build/binary_package-lists
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ then
 	fi
 
 	mkdir -p chroot/binary.deb/archives/partial
-	mv chroot/var/lib/dpkg/status chroot/var/lib/dpkg/status.tmp
-	touch chroot/var/lib/dpkg/status
 
 	for LIST in config/package-lists/*.list \
 		    config/package-lists/*.list.binary
@@ -83,7 +81,7 @@ then
 			Expand_packagelist "${LIST}" "config/package-lists" > chroot/root/"$(basename ${LIST})"
 
 			# Downloading additional packages
-			Chroot chroot "xargs --no-run-if-empty --arg-file=/root/$(basename ${LIST}) apt-get ${APT_OPTIONS} -o Dir::Cache=/binary.deb --download-only install"
+			Chroot chroot "xargs --no-run-if-empty --arg-file=/root/$(basename ${LIST}) apt-get ${APT_OPTIONS} -o Dir::Cache=/binary.deb -o Dir::State::status=/dev/null --download-only install"
 
 			# Remove package list
 			rm chroot/root/"$(basename ${LIST})"
@@ -151,7 +149,6 @@ then
 	rm -f chroot/bin/Packages
 
 	rm -rf chroot/binary.deb
-	mv chroot/var/lib/dpkg/status.tmp chroot/var/lib/dpkg/status
 
 	# Removing depends
 	Remove_package
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